Cricket St Thomas is a parish in Somerset, England, located in a valley between Chard and Crewkerne within the administrative district of South Somerset. The parish has a population of 50 inhabitants. Cricket St Thomas is a quiet village in the heart of Somerset, a short distance from Chard and Crewkerne. Its name comes from the Cricket family, who owned the vast estate in the 12th century.
Cricket House, located on the hillside of the estate, overlooks Lake Tiddlers, which runs through the grounds. There was a lifeguard on call and the pool also had a steam room and sauna at one end, which can be seen as the Cricket St Thomas Spa, with a separate sauna with colorful lights and soft music on the other. In addition to resting in the buildings in front of the small church of St. Thomas, you can walk from one end of the hotel to the other and all the corridors have ramps to make things easier for those with less mobility.
The gardens around the Cricket House are very well maintained, with grassy borders leading from the terraces on the ground floor of Hamilton restaurant to the orange orchard. In 1998, the house and part of the estate were sold to Warner Holidays, who developed the hotel, keeping the historic Cricket House in its center and building modern wings in the garden that now house most of the 220 rooms and the leisure center.
Marketed as Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park, the rolling countryside was home to all kinds of elephants, zebras and cheetahs. Inside Cricket House are a handful of historic rooms that are in high demand, and if you stay in one of these, you can park right in front of the house on the gravel road. If you like historic houses and gardens, the hotel's historic properties, such as Cricket St Thomas, are perfect for you, providing character and charm combined with modern facilities.
