DESCRIPTION

Gants Mill is both a bed and breakfast and a visitor attraction on a working farm in East Somerset, half a mile from Bruton and near Shepton Mallet and Wincanton.

There are three bedrooms available in the 18th century farmhouse: the Millpool View Room with a romantic four poster stargazer bed plus a single bed; the Garden View Room also with a four poster stargazer; and The Millpool View Single Room. All are en suite and have charming antique décor, tea making facilities, complimentary sherry and nibbles, TV and wireless internet access.

The Breakfast Room has a huge 19th century table and a wide selection for the health conscious and the self-indulgent with vegetarian options too.

Visitors to the water garden can enjoy its streams, ponds, waterfalls, pergolas, sculptures, and seasonal floral displays. The historic watermill tour covers its thousand year history with demonstrations of the Victorian turbine grinding corn.

 GREEN FEATURES

In 2003 a new turbine and electricity generator was installed at Gants Mill, to complement the 1888 Armfield turbine. An initiative by South Somerset District Council led to the formation of the South Somerset Hydropower Group, a group of 10 mill owners working together to install electrical generating equipment in their mills.

The stimulus was to reduce CO2 emissions and the pledge by the Government to produce 10% of electrical energy from renewable resources by 2010.

Visitors can peer down into the old waterwheel pit and make