Winding country lanes lead to this popular local and gastropub with a welcoming vibe, smart New England-style bedrooms and a restaurant serving the freshest fish and seafood.

You drive down a single-track road on the edge of Dartmoor National Park and cross a brook to reach this dog-friendly, very ancient, thatched and whitewashed village pub, redolent of history, serving excellent, locally sourced pub classics, with rustic-chic bedrooms and two resident ghosts.

Behind a historic, jettied black-and-white facade a stroll from the quay lies a drop-in café, bar and restaurant, and, up creaky old stairs, quaint, pet-friendly bedrooms, named after old sea dogs.

Steep stairs lead to old-fashioned, characterful beamed bedrooms at this cosy family-run inn in a rural Dartmoor village, reached by narrow back roads, where walkers and cyclists can work up an appetite to dine from an eclectic menu that mixes classic pub grub with some impressive gastro dishes, served by friendly, efficient staff.

The individually styled rooms are very appealing, but it is the food, both for vegans and omnivores, that really sets this gastropub apart.

At the heart of Exmoor, above the River Barle, this 17th-century stone inn above a medieval clapper bridge is a wildlife-watcher's paradise, with fishing on both river banks.