Coleridge's Nether Stowey

Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived at Nether Stowey from 1797-1800 with his wife Sara and children. They lived in a small cottage in Lime Street that was altered in the 19th century for use as a public house. The National Trust has recently completed a refurbishment of the cottage and its garden with help from the Friends of Coleridge.

While in Nether Stowey Coleridge wrote some of his finest poems such as Frost at Midnight, Kubla Kahn and the Ancient Mariner and furthered his friendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others. His greatest friend in Nether Stowey was the tanner Tom Poole whose garden and tanyard lay behind the cottage.

Thousands of people make the pilgrimage to the Lime Street Cottage but there are many other places Coleridge and Sara would have known in their daily lives in the village or small town between the Quantocks and the sea.