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Try The Cafe & Terrace at Jordans Courtyard<\/a>\u00a0 Current Hours 0900-1500 Tuesday to Sunday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Food \u2013 Brown and Forrest Smokery<\/a> \u2013 Hambridge.<\/p>\n

Good pub guide \u2013 Lord Poulett Arms<\/a> \u2013 Hinton St George + Royal Oak, Over Stratton + The Firehouse<\/a>, Curry Rivel.<\/p>\n

Michelin Pub Guide \u2013 White Horse<\/a> Haselbury Plucknett, Lord Poulett Arms \u2013 Hinton st. George, Devonshire Arms \u2013 Long Sutton, White Hart – Somerton.<\/p>\n

Trencherman guide \u2013 Little Barwick House<\/a> \u2013 Nr Yeovil, White Hart – Somerton, Augustus – Taunton, White Horse Haselbury Plucknett.<\/p>\n

Recommended local pubs \u2013 The Bell at Broadway<\/a>, The Five Dials in Horton, The Boar at Barrington<\/a>, Lamb and\u00a0Lion in Hambridge.<\/p>\n

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See our SHEPHERD HUT INFORMATION PACK for lots of information on things to do and places to eat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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  Try The Cafe & Terrace at Jordans Courtyard\u00a0 Current Hours 0900-1500 Tuesday to Sunday Food \u2013 Brown and Forrest Smokery \u2013 Hambridge. Good pub guide \u2013 Lord Poulett Arms \u2013 Hinton St George + Royal Oak, Over Stratton + The Firehouse, Curry Rivel. Michelin Pub Guide \u2013 White Horse Haselbury Plucknett, Lord Poulett Arms […]<\/p>\n

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Food \u2013 Brown and Forrest Smokery \u2013 Hambridge. <\/span><\/p>

Good pub guide \u2013 Lord Poulett Arms \u2013 Hinton St George + Royal Oak Over Stratton<\/span><\/p>

Michelin Pub Guide \u2013 White Horse Haselbury Plucknett, Lord Poulett Arms \u2013 Hinton st. George, Devonshire Arms \u2013 Long Sutton, White Hart - Somerton.<\/span><\/p>

Trencherman guide \u2013 Little Barwick House \u2013 Nr Yeovil, White Hart - Somerton, Augustus - Taunton, White Horse Haselbury Plucknett.<\/span><\/p>

Recommended local pubs \u2013 Five Dials, The Boar at Barrington, Lamb and Flag Hambridge.<\/span><\/p>

Local Restaurants \u2013 Celendines, Lopen Raj, Feast, Farthings \u2013 Hatch Beauchamp <\/span><\/p>

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History<\/span><\/p>

The Speke Family originated from a small village near Cherbourg called Quettehou in Normandy, France. Settling in England sometime after the Norman Invasion. First records were of a Richard L\u2019Espec born 1110 living in North Devon at Wembworthy.<\/span><\/p>

Over time the name became Anglisized to Speke and marriage to a Joan Keynes in 1420 brought the family to Somerset and the estate of Dowlish Wake, near Ilminster. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Since that time some 25 generations have owned land around Ilminster, Ashill and Dowlish Wake. <\/span><\/p>

William Speke (eleventh to bear that name) and the sixth son of George Speke of Whitelackington Manor bought the Jordans site in around 1680. The family gained some notoriety as William\u2019s elder brother Charles was hanged in Ilminster town square during Judge Jeffries\u2019 bloody assizes for the part the family played in the failed Monmouth rebellion of 1685. <\/span><\/p>

The family at the time lived at nearby Dillington house and Anne Speke married Lord North, later Prime Minister in 1770 at the time of American Independence. <\/span><\/p>

The House at Jordans was built in 1796 by the grandson of the afore mentioned William Speke also called William. The house replaced an older Tudor style house built in 1633. The site was named Jordans after a family that had previously owned the land and had built at least 2 houses of the same name before.<\/span><\/p>

This Georgian Mansion was surrounded by parkland, ornamental gardens, a walled garden and a lake beside which a small grotto was built in 1828, which still stands. The interior of the Grotto is decorated by coral and shells from around the British Empire, arriving by ship into the port of Bristol. <\/span><\/p>

In 1827 the house saw the birth of its most famous resident John Hanning Speke, a contemporary of Livingston and Stanley and other Victorian Explorers. In 1862 John Hanning discovered the source of the River Nile and named it Lake Victoria, solving one of the greatest mysteries of the age. He died only 2 years later in a shooting accident amidst controversy and just before a debate with his rival Burton to be held at the Royal Geographic society in Bath.<\/span><\/p>

More recent history saw the house\u2019s final resident from the family. Colonel Walter Speke, a veteran of both the Boer and First World Wars before returning to Jordans in 1918 until his death in 1944. With no children, having never married the house was due to pass to William Speke but he had tragically been killed in 1942 during the Second World War and instead it passed to his eight-year old son, Peter.<\/span><\/p>

Peter had been taken to live in Canada, his mother having moved and remarried following the war. The house was put into trust and run by Distant family and Land Agents. The Contents of the house were sold by Auction in 1945 and it was turned into a prep school for boys and girls between 1945 and 1955. Over the next 9 years it fell into a poor state of repair, the lead on the roof having been given by the Colonel to the war effort and never replaced. The house was finally demolished in 1964. The grotto, stable-block and walled garden survive as well as the beautiful parkland in which the Shepherd Hut is placed.<\/span><\/p>

Peter returned to England with his young family in 1965 and made about restoring a house close-by called Rowlands and began farming the land which continues today. <\/span><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2614","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nLocal places to eat - Jordans Glamping<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Local places to eat - Jordans Glamping\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"  Try The Cafe & Terrace at Jordans Courtyard\u00a0 Current Hours 0900-1500 Tuesday to Sunday Food \u2013 Brown and Forrest Smokery \u2013 Hambridge. Good pub guide \u2013 Lord Poulett Arms \u2013 Hinton St George + Royal Oak, Over Stratton + The Firehouse, Curry Rivel. 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