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Historic Accommodation In South West England

 

 

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As InfoBritain is a site for historical tourism we have created a special list of hotels with particular historic interest. Each hotel has been selected for its quality, and for the historic nature of its buildings, or for events that took place in or near the hotels. In the south west you could stay at the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, made famous by Daphne Du Maurier, or at the grand Edwardian manor house at Bovey Castle on Dartmoor.

 

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The George Hotel in the village of Hatherleigh, mid Devon is a remarkable 15th century inn modernised to the highest standards.

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After getting thrown out of Oxford university, and marrying against his father's wishes, the rebellious young poet Percy Shelley went travelling accompanied by a group of admirers. In 1812 Shelley and his entourage went to Lynmouth in Devon. Here he got into trouble for handing out seditious pamphlets. On top of the risk his political views posed, hopeless finances meant that arrest for debt was a constant possibility. Fortunately Shelley's Lynmouth landlady was so taken with him that she lent him money, and had a whip round amongst neighbours for her fascinating young resident. Mrs Hooper's Lodgings where the group stayed still exists, and is now known the four star award winning Shelley's Hotel.

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The Jamaica Inn, high on Bodmin Moor, is famous as a setting in the novel Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. Du Maurier describes the hotel memorably: "It was a dark, rambling place, with long passages and unexpected rooms. There was a separate entrance to the bar, at the side of the house, and though the room was empty now, there was something heavy in the atmosphere reminiscent of the last time it was full: a lingering taste of old tobacco, the sour smell of drink, and an impression of warm, unclean humanity packed one against the other on the dark stained benches." Suffice to say that the Jamaica Inn is not like that now, and never really has been! Daphne du Maurier simply used the striking position of the hotel in the middle of Bodmin Moor to let her imagination go to work. The hotel is much more like Du Maurier's apologetic note at the beginning of the book: "Jamaica Inn stands today, hospitable and kindly... on the twenty mile road between Bodmin and Launceston." There is a small museum dedicated to Du Maurier at the hotel.

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The Lugger is a beautiful seventeenth century inn on the water's edge at Portloe harbour in Cornwall. High quality modern facilities in the rooms complement the historic setting.

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Polride Mill Cottage is a 17th century mill building set in woodland in the Allen Valley, near St Trudy, Cornwall. A great base for a holiday in north Cornwall.

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The Ship In Dock Inn is a 17th century inn with four high quality rooms on the riverside at Dartmouth in Devon. For many centuries passengers and crew on ships moving in and out of Dartmouth have used local inns. The Mayflower tied up at the quay side at Bayard's Cove, close to the Ship In Dock Inn, on its way to the New World in August 1620.

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The Greenbank Hotel in Falmouth provided accommodation for Kenneth Grahame while he wrote Wind in the Willows as a set of letters for his son. The hotel provides 4 star accommodation, and has a lovely position on the quay front looking across Falmouth Bay. We've stayed here ourselves, and very much enjoyed it.

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Bovey Castle is a huge Edwardian manor house in Dartmoor National Park in Devon. Today Bovey Castle provides 5 star accommodation. The hotel is also famous for its golf course.

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The Woodford Bridge Country Club is near the village of Holsworthy in north Devon. Originally this building was a fifteenth century coaching inn, and now after modernisation is a highly rated 3 star hotel.

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Minadab Cottage in Teignmouth, Devon is a thatched cottage built in 1820, now modernised to a 4 star standard. The hotel has lovely views over Labrador Bay.

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Sampsons Farm Country Hotel is a thatched 16th century farmhouse near Newton Abbott in Devon.

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