Best hotels with fishing in Devon

The Gloriana of Robin Hutson’s Pig hotel collection (see index), this Grade I listed Elizabethan beauty stands in ‘wonderful grounds in a special location’ in the peaceful Otter valley.

A ‘stunning Jacobean building’ is, astonishingly, largely the creation of Victorian squire, parson and prolific author the Revd Sabine Baring-Gould.

In an isolated hamlet on the edge of Exmoor national park, where hog-backed cliffs tower above the Bristol Channel, this hotel in a 16th-century-cum-Georgian rectory 'goes from strength to strength'.

The 'spectacular views of the rugged coastline' over Bigbury-on-Sea's sands towards Burgh Island are what first impress about this former Edwardian holiday home, but guests also appreciate the 'inventive, tasty and well-cooked' food and the 'warm, jovial and friendly' owners.

‘An enchanting destination’ is how readers describe Olga Polizzi’s Regency hunting lodge, which stands by the River Tamar in an Elysian landscape designed by Humphry Repton.

From bread to truffles, they cook as much as possible on site in this little hotel, in the rolling South Hams countryside, between wild Dartmoor and the sandy beaches of Bigbury Bay.

At the end of a twisty, country lane and standing high above woodland close to Dartmoor, this grand country house, built in the Arts and Crafts style, is luxurious but surprisingly intimate.

Wrapped in woodland, on the banks of the River Teign, this former corn mill is now a tranquil country house hotel with fires in the sitting rooms and a well-regarded restaurant.

There’s a bohemian charm to Olivia and Hugo Guest’s Georgian house with its colourful interiors, smallholding and rolling Devon views.

Tucked away down single-track roads, this thatched and whitewashed pub with its low ceilings, slate floors and inglenook fireplaces looks to have been here forever.