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April 8, 2021

Cossington Park in Lockdown

COVID-19 has been hard on all of us, but at Cossington Park, not only have we been busy with redecorating and restoring, but staff and local families have made the most of the grounds over the past few months. The children have had fun playing in the large open areas,…

April 2, 2021

Spring 2021 Newsletter

Welcome to the Cossington Park Spring Newsletter. There are many signs of spring here in Somerset where the climate is more temperate and the days longer than the UK average; how welcome after all the challenges of the last 12 months.During the national lock-downs, Cossington Park hosted essential ‘key workers’ and…

March 31, 2021

5% VAT for Cossington Park

Guests of Cossington Park are benefiting from 5% VAT on tourist accommodation in the UK compared to the standard rate of 20%. In effect our prices are discounted by 15%. Graham Wason, Owner-Guardian of Cossington Park, is delighted to be able to offer our guests this 15% discount, not least…

January 27, 2021

How was your visit to Cossington Park?

Owner of Cossington Park, Graham Wason, is a founder-director of the Professional Association of Self Caterers (PASC) and invites you to take part in a survey about visits to self-catering accommodation. You might win a £200 Amazon voucher by taking part. PASC, together with the Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers (ASSC),…

June 18, 2020

Cossington Park Re-opening 4th July

The past few months have felt like a lifetime, with moments of uncertainty and isolation in the face of the Government’s enforced closure of all holiday accommodation, so Cossington Park has been unaccustomedly guest free for a long time. We are now taking bookings for stays from 4th July 2020…

April 23, 2020

Our Rare Chinese Elm Tree – basis of the Cossington Park logo

The Elm Tree was brought back from China by one of Grahams ancestors and has probably been in the Cossington garden for about 200 years. Grahams father used to tell a story that in the early 19th century, Kew Gardens announced that it had acquired the first one…

April 22, 2020

Cossington Park awarded Bronze in the Bristol, Bath & Somerset Awards

Cossington Park took part in the most recent Bristol, Bath & Somerset Awards. The awards got us into the final, where Cossington were delighted to be awarded Bronze in the Self Catering Accommodation of the Year category! We have listed below some of the comments the inspectors left for us:…

March 13, 2020

Cossington Park House -Bedroom Names Explained!

Most bedrooms are named after their unusual brass door knockers, hence for example: ‘Chaucer’, ‘The Pump Room’ and ‘The Cobbler’. ‘The Trusty Servant’ seems particularly appropriate as this was for a time the maid’s room. I like to imagine that two friars once slept in the large twin beds…

November 21, 2019

Christmas Open Evening

Cossington Park opened its doors for the local residents on Tuesday night, complete with mince pies and mulled wine and cider. Many guests entered the house greeted by a warm glass of mulled wine or cider freshly prepared by Anne Baker and a locally sourced mince pie from Burns the…

October 17, 2019

Cossington History – The Clementi Piano

The Cossington piano is a Clementi grand believed to date from 1810-1815. The wonderfully named, and talented, Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (1752 to 1832) was an Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. According to Wikipedia, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford who took him…