‘As delightful as ever’, reports a trusted Guide correspondent in 2017, of Adam Fox-Edwards’s former coaching inn-turned-sporting hotel near Dartmoor. Justly popular with anglers, the hotel has fishing rights over 20 miles of the River Tamar, plus expert ghillies, and a tackle shop in an 18th-century cockfighting pit. It is also ‘a wonderful place in which to relax’: the residents’ sitting room, ‘charming and spacious’, has log fires, ‘marvellous oil paintings’, ‘lots of really comfy seating’ and ‘pretty (not old-fashioned!) chintz’; doors lead directly to the garden. ‘All the glossies and several daily papers are here, too, for more indolent days.’ Country-style bedrooms are ‘cosy and comfortable’ with antiques, home-made biscuits and ‘lovely views over the pretty garden’. Hungry diners eat in either of the two bars or in the main dining room, where long-serving chef Steve Pidgeon’s award-winning modern British dishes might include free-range chicken fillet, hay-smoked celeriac, creamed leeks, honey-glazed parsnips. ‘Our group meal was a cut above the average event dinner, but the highlight was the fabulous full English the next morning.’ (Abigail Kirby-Harris)