Best hotels for walking in Devon

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Tavistock

It’s all about the views at this former 19th-century mine captain’s house turned dog-friendly hotel on a hillside on the Devon/Cornwall border.

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Lewtrenchard Manor - Twixmas Break Special Offer

Okehampton

‘A most beautiful building in lovely, peaceful grounds with a wooded walk down to the river,’ say Guide insiders of the Murray family’s splendid stone manor house.

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Soar Mill Cove Hotel - Spring Outdoors Escape Special Offer

Salcombe

It’s all about the sublime seaside setting at Keith Makepeace’s family-centric, dog-friendly hotel with ‘amazing views to take your breath away’.

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Cary Arms & Spa - Rental Cottages Special Offer

Babbacombe

Queen Victoria thought of Italy as she viewed the ‘red cliffs and rocks and wooded hills’ that surround pebbly Babbacombe Bay, and for la dolce vita look no further than this spa hotel.

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Watersmeet - Autumn Ramblers Package

Woolacombe

On the South West Coast Path, this former Edwardian gentleman’s retreat has ‘wonderful’ cliff-top views over an expanse of sea and sand.

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The Pig at Combe, Honiton

The Empress of Blandings among Robin Hutson’s Pig hotels (see index), this honey-stone Elizabethan manor house in the Otter valley is reached by a mile-long carriage drive.

The Nobody Inn, Exeter

Down narrow, winding country lanes, Sue Burdge’s inn is so much the model of an olde-worlde Devon pub that it ‘could have been created by a set designer’.

The Old Rectory Hotel, Martinhoe

Standing high on verdant, hog-backed cliffs above the Exmoor coast, Huw Rees and Sam Prosser’s rectory-turned-hotel is wonderfully remote.

The Henley, Bigbury-on-Sea

‘The views are stunning’ from Martyn Scarterfield and Petra Lampe’s Edwardian holiday cottage-turned-B&B, which gazes over the Avon estuary to Burgh Island.

The Rock Inn, Newton Abbot

Built from granite quarried beneath massive Haytor, this whitewashed village inn is a perennially popular local and makes a good base for exploring Dartmoor.

Hotel Endsleigh, Tavistock

‘It’s hard to fathom just how many things the Endsleigh does right,’ says one reader, of this Grade I listed hotel set in 200 acres of fairy-tale gardens in the Tamar valley.

Plantation House, Plymouth

Between Dartmoor and the sea, in a village remarkable for its crooked church spire, Richard Hendey’s former Georgian rectory is today ‘a really good hotel’.

Glazebrook House, Totnes

Callooh! Callay! On the fringe of Dartmoor national park, this Alice-themed hotel is a veritable cabinet of curiosities, a treasure trove of wit and invention.

The Cricket Inn, Kingsbridge

Fish and chips within sound of the waves, local crab and lobster, and the day’s catch cooked over charcoal are among the attractions at this expanded pub in a small village overlooking Start Bay.

Gara Rock, Salcombe

‘The perfect pit stop’ on the Coast Path between Salcombe and Dartmouth, Gara Rock stands ‘high on the cliff above a beautiful beach’.

Thurlestone Hotel, Kingsbridge

‘Thoroughly dependable, yet stylish in an old-fashioned way’, this family-friendly hotel has been run with care by the Grose family for more than 120 years.

Strete Barton House, Dartmouth

‘The warmth of the welcome’ inspired guests to write to us this year about Stuart Litster and Kevin Hooper’s ‘superbly decorated’ B&B, in a village on the South West Coast Path.

Kaywana Hall, Kingswear

Across the estuary from Dartmouth, in hillside woodland, Tony Pithers and Gordon Craig’s ultra-modern B&B is in a 1960s Le Corbusier-inspired ‘butterfly house’ – one of four in Devon.

Cider House, Yelverton

Birdsong fills the morning at this sophisticated B&B, in the sprawling grounds of the National Trust’s Buckland Abbey.

Lympstone Manor, Exmouth

The chef/patron at this country house hotel on the Exe estuary is Michael Caines, whose eye for detail informs everything, from the hand-painted wallpaper to the Michelin-starred cuisine.

Northcote Manor Hotel & Spa, Umberleigh

Deep in the Taw valley, Jean-Pierre Mifsud’s wisteria-hung 18th-century manor house is a characterful, ‘very comfortable’ hideaway surrounded by orchards and woodlands.

Kilbury Manor, Buckfastleigh

Meadowland leads down to the River Dart from Julia and Martin Blundell’s peaceful countryside B&B, in a 17th-century Devonshire longhouse within easy reach of Dartmoor national park.

South Sands, Salcombe

A wide, beach-facing terrace reaches across this ‘informal’, family-friendly hotel, in a sheltered cove just outside the centre of the busy sailing town.

Salcombe Harbour Hotel, Salcombe

It’s not just the ‘stupendous view’, but ‘the whole ambience’ that guests find appealing about this Victorian hotel and spa on Salcombe’s tranquil estuary.

Kerswell Farmhouse, Cornworthy

Named after the wells and cress beds fed by nearby springs, Nichola and Graham Hawkins’s B&B is enfolded by their small working farm.

The Cridford Inn, Trusham

With cob walls, a thatched roof and wide stone fireplaces, this rural Teign valley pub looks the part of the county’s – possibly England’s – oldest inn.

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Prince Hall Country House

Dartmoor

Dramatic moorland views are part of the allure at this isolated Georgian mansion, where former guests are said to have included Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Featured hotels with Special Offers

Best hotels for walking in Devon

The Horn of Plenty - 2 night Escape to the Country Special Offer – flexible cancellation

Tavistock

Lewtrenchard Manor - Twixmas Break Special Offer

Okehampton

Soar Mill Cove Hotel - Spring Outdoors Escape Special Offer

Salcombe

Cary Arms & Spa - Rental Cottages Special Offer

Babbacombe

Watersmeet - Autumn Ramblers Package

Woolacombe

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