The Willows and Wetlands Visitor Centre is situated at Stoke St Gregory, on the Somerset Levels, north east of Taunton, England. Based on a working farm, growing and processing willow, the centre offers tours of over 80 acres (0.12 sq mi) of withies, willow yards and basket workshops and explains the place of willow in the history of the Levels.
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