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

A short stroll from the sands, behind a Georgian facade, the seventh Pig in the litter has dramatic medieval and Jacobean interiors, with bedrooms in the main house, the annexe and in garden wagons, and a restaurant making abundant use of local fish, shellfish and kitchen-garden produce.

The Gloriana of Robin Hutson's Pig hotel collection, this Grade I-listed Elizabethan beauty in the peaceful Otter valley has the expected shabby-chic interiors, with French antiques, Zoffany fabrics and portraits of bewigged bigwigs, bedrooms decorated in restful pastels, a 25-mile menu making clever use of produce from the kitchen garden, and wood-fired flatbreads served outside a restored folly.

Run by a local family, this cosy whitewashed pub and restaurant with rooms has a well-deserved reputation for creative cooking and good pub classics.

With stunning views over the Taw and Torridge estuary, this 18th-century former inn is now a restaurant with simple but chic, affordable bedrooms, both upstairs and in a quayside annexe.

A very handsome 18th-century coaching inn in an old shipbuilding town on the Exe estuary is home to bright, contemporary bedrooms, a fishmongers and deli, and a modern glazed atrium for meals, with interesting locally sourced dishes in menus for omnivores, vegetarians and vegans.