Lillian’s Cottage is a comfortable, semi-detached cottage, suitable for two couples or a family. The cottage is in the heart of the beautiful Dartmoor village of Dunsford and is ideal for year-round holidays. A gate from the pavement leads into the walled, paved courtyard garden, ideal for outdoor dining. The living room has exposed beams and an inglenook fireplace, which still has the original bread oven.
Dunsford lies inside the Dartmoor National Park and many of its houses are of traditional cob and thatch. Here the River Teign emerges from its moorland course at Steps Bridge, ½ mile from the village, and flows from the thickly wooded Teign Valley. Upstream from Steps Bridge, the scenery is spectacular with Castle Drogo crowning the gorge above the renowned beauty spot of Fingle Bridge. To the west of Dunsford the road climbs up through woods to Moretonhampstead, 15 minutes, a small Dartmoor town and the open moor. Here there are several restaurants, shops and a small supermarket.
Needless to say, the whole area is a walkers’ and riders’ paradise. The village itself clusters around the ancient church of St. Mary, and in 2010 won the award for ‘Best Kept Village’ in Devon. Dunsford has kept its village shop and post office and has a pub and a beautiful walled garden restaurant, and the village garage still sells petrol! Lying off the Exeter to Moretonhampstead road, there is little through traffic, thus allowing walkers and horse riders to enjoy the calm of high-hedged Devon lanes. Guests will usually be able to park directly outside Lillian’s Cottage, but occasionally a few yards either up or down the road. Dunsford is a quiet village whose cottages were built in an era when transport was either horse drawn or on foot rather than wheels! Beach 15 miles. Shop and restaurant 50 yards, pub 40 yards.