You might hike to the summit of Dunkery Hill, highest point on Exmoor. Then again, you might sit on the veranda of this smart B&B, swigging a Somerset ale, and admire it at your leisure. Built in 1901 as an all-male hunting lodge with 20 single (surely spartan) bedrooms, the house is these days a more opulent base from which to explore the moors. Rooms with a view include a dog friendly ground-floor suite and two four-poster suites. They no longer have a restaurant, but hosts Andy and Tanya Downes can provide a simple evening meal to walkers and cyclists, by arrangement. Breakfast is locally sourced, with homegrown fruit, Exmoor honey and home-baked bread. A Newtonian telescope is available through which to marvel at the star-spangled night sky.