The Maid Of Somerset
Unlike the latest raft of luxury trains crisscrossing the globe, the Maid of Somerset goes nowhere at all. Ticket-holders find it parked in the garden of the Creamery, a restaurant at Castle Cary Station, in the appletree-lined countryside of southern England. Karen Roos and Koos Bekker of The Newt in Somerset, the eccentric country resort nearby, transformed this 1921 British Pullman into an elegant tea salon last year, polishing its mahogany marquetry and brass fixtures to a period gleam for
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- Address
- Station Wharf, Station Rd, Castle Cary BA7 7PE, United Kingdom
- Phone
- +44 1963 577777
- Website
- thenewtinsomerset.com
- Directions
- Get directions
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Unlike the latest raft of luxury trains crisscrossing the globe, the Maid of Somerset goes nowhere at all. Ticket-holders find it parked in the garden of the Creamery, a restaurant at Castle Cary Station, in the appletree-lined countryside of southern England. Karen Roos and Koos Bekker of The Newt in Somerset, the eccentric country resort nearby, transformed this 1921 British Pullman into an elegant tea salon last year, polishing its mahogany marquetry and brass fixtures to a period gleam for
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