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The Privé Collection 2026 · A Private Experience

The Newt

A Georgian estate in the Somerset hills, its walled gardens, cyder orchards and farm all brought back to life together, where the English countryside is tended to the last apple and hedge.

The English country estate, perfected
Somerset · England 51° 04′ 52.0″ N  /  2° 29′ 25.2″ W
Satopia Travel presents A cinematic travel experience In partnership with The Newt in Somerset Stills from the Newt film
The Estate

A Georgian estate, its gardens and orchards restored as one living whole.

The Newt is a country estate around a honey-stone Georgian house in the folds of Somerset, its walled gardens, woodland and farm all rewoven together with extraordinary care by the couple behind it.

Cyder is pressed from its own orchards, the kitchen cooks what the gardens grow, and every path, wall and hedge is tended to a standard the English countryside rarely sees. It is a working estate that happens to welcome you in.

Overview The Somerset hills, south west England
Setting
Somerset, south west England
Accommodation
Rooms in the house & estate
Exclusive use
Private houses, on request
Getting there
About 2.5 hrs from London
The estate
Walled gardens, orchards & farm
Satopia experience
Tailor-made, end to end
On board · 4:5
Enquire

Every experience begins with a single click. Tell us when and with who and we'll design a world around you.

Guests From 2 guests to a private house
2
Nights Typically 2 to 5 nights
5
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The Estate

Walled gardens, cyder orchards, a farm and a Georgian house, all tended to the last apple, and yours to wander at will.

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01 Accommodation

Rooms in a Georgian house, and private cottages beyond.

The bedrooms fill the old house and its outbuildings, English and unfussy, dressed in the estate own cloth and colour, looking onto gardens, courtyards and the hills beyond.

For a family or a group, private houses on the estate give you kitchens, gardens and quiet of your own, with everything the estate offers a short stroll away.

In the house
English country rooms
On the estate
Private cottages & houses
The look
Understated, home-grown
Use
A house, or more, privately
A room in the house · 4:5
02 Culinary

The gardens on the plate, and cyder from the orchard.

The kitchen cooks what the walled gardens grow that morning, plainly and beautifully, and the estate presses its own cyder from old and rare apples in the orchards on the hill.

You can eat in the house, out among the gardens, or up at the farm, and taste the whole estate in a glass and on a plate.

From the gardens
Grown & cooked the same day
From the orchard
The estate own cyder
On board · 4:5
03 Experiences

Gardens to lose a day in, and the making of cyder.

The heart of it is the gardens: the great parabola of apple varieties, the walled beds, the woodland walks and the deer park, laid out to be wandered slowly and endlessly.

Beyond them lie the cyder cellars and farm, the wider Somerset of Glastonbury and the abbeys, and enough to fill days or to ignore entirely from a chair in the sun.

On the estate
The parabola, gardens & deer park
Nearby
Glastonbury & the Somerset levels
On board · 4:5
04 Wellness

A spa, the gardens, and the slow English outdoors.

The estate spa draws on the gardens and the apple, a calm place to swim and be treated after a day outside. But much of the wellness here is simply the walking: miles of paths through beds, orchard and wood.

It is gentle, green and restorative, the countryside doing quietly what a treatment room can only hint at.

At the estate
Spa & pool
Outdoors
Miles of garden paths
On board · 4:5
05 Service

A household that keeps it all effortless.

For all its scale, the estate runs on warm, unshowy English service: staff who know the gardens, the cyder and the countryside, and who make a stay feel like being a guest at a very well-kept house.

Behind them sits your Satopia travel designer, who holds your rooms or a private house on your dates and arranges every part of the stay.

At the estate
Warm, practised service
Behind it
One Satopia travel designer
The Newt welcome · 4:5
06 Setting

The West Country, tended to perfection.

This is deep Somerset: apple country, honey-stone villages and green hills, the gentle heartland of the English West Country, restored here with a care that spreads across the whole estate.

To stay is to see the English countryside not as backdrop but as the thing itself, kept exactly as it should be.

Around you
Orchard, hill & village
The estate
Kept to perfection
On board · 4:5
Moments

The estate, in motion.

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The parabola of apples from the air.
The gardens laid out across the estate.
Cyder in the making, the old way.
The gardens, straight to the table.
Plan your Experience

What's the forecast?

Everything here is to help you picture it. Your travel designer handles the arranging: the drive from London, the rooms or the house held for you, the gardens and the table.

When to go
Best · May – September · gardens at their peak
8°
Jan
8°
Feb
11°
Mar
14°
Apr
17°
May
20°
Jun
22°
Jul
22°
Aug
19°
Sep
15°
Oct
11°
Nov
8°
Dec
RainfallDriest March · wettest October
Summer · gardens at their best Autumn & winter Rainfall trend
For a private house party

A house of your own.

Take an estate house for family or friends, the gardens, cyder and kitchen all a short walk away.

For the gardener

The gardens, up close.

The parabola, the walled beds and the woodland, laid out to be wandered slowly, a garden lover ideal.

For a celebration

A country weekend.

A landmark birthday or gathering in a Georgian estate, with the whole Somerset countryside as your setting.

For the food lover

Garden, orchard, table.

What the gardens grow and the orchards press, cooked and poured the same day, an estate you can taste.

Plan your journey

How far is it from you?

Choose where you would set out from. We'll estimate the flight and how much the time change is likely to ask of you.

The Satopia Advantage™

You choose the place.
We'll do all the planning.

We hold the relationship with The Newt, so we can place you in the house on your dates, or take a private estate house, and join it to everything around it. From there a single travel designer composes the stay end to end. You simply arrive.

What we secure

Your rooms in the house, or a private estate house on exclusive use, with the dates and the gardens held for you.

What we arrange

Every link composed by one travel designer: the transfer from London, the gardens, the spa and the table, arranged around you.

People we bring to you, on request
Head gardeners
Cyder makers
Private chefs
Countryside guides
Drivers
West Country fixers

When you're ready, we'll take it from here.

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Satopia Insider

A few things worth knowing.

Drawn from recent guests.

Allow enough time for the estate

Give yourself at least two full days to experience the extensive grounds. Visiting in spring reveals the gardens in full bloom, while October brings traditional apple weekend events. The estate features various accommodation styles, ranging from cottages with comfortable layouts and well stocked larders to rooms in the newer farm section.

Do not miss the virtual reality experience

Make time to walk through the impressive Roman Villa Replica during your stay. The virtual reality experience inside brings history to life in an unexpected and memorable way. Following this with a guided garden tour provides wonderful context before heading into the Botanical restaurant for dinner.

Extend your stay

Want to make more of it? We'll plan that too.

The Newt sits in the West Country, an easy drive from London, so most travellers make a wider English journey of it. A few we would pair it with, each arranged as one seamless experience.

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England

London, before or after

Bookend the estate with the capital: private galleries, theatre and a night or two in a great London house.

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Cornwall

On to the Cornish coast

Further west to the sea: the beaches, gardens and clifftops of Cornwall, a bright counterpoint to Somerset.

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The Cotswolds

The Cotswolds

North to honey-stone villages and rolling hills, another face of the English countryside, easily joined.

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Enquire · The Privé Collection 2026

Every experience begins with a conversation.

Tell us who is coming and your dates. We will shape the rest around you. Nothing is booked yet, and we reply within a day.

01

When would you like to come?

Choose one or more months, or tell us you're flexible on dates.

Ideal · May to September

02

What's the occasion?

Choose any that apply.

03

An indicative budget?

An estimate of your budget for the whole stay helps us plan your experience. Below is an estimated nightly rate, excluding experience budget, to help you plan.

04

Who shall we reply to?

Included in your experience
  • Complimentary in-room larder & bottle of Winston
  • Daily cream tea (Hadspen House)
Arranged separately
  • Dining
  • Spa treatments
  • Transfers

The Newt is priced by the room, or by the house on exclusive use, and by season.
We confirm the exact figure for your dates, live, at enquiry.

Private & tailor-made · the estate, or a private house Enquire
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