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Home From Home
The Road Less Travelled
We offer a luxurious home from home – you are our VIP guests. We love having people to stay, and thoroughly enjoy your company.
Wydemeet is furnished for family and friends to relax in, offering sumptuous cosy comfort of the highest quality, recently upgraded in a ‘Jane Austen Romantic’ style, in complete sympathy with the architecture, location and mood of the house.
Nestled in a particularly beautiful, wild, and relatively unknown pocket of high Dartmoor, Wydemeet is a family home, less than a mile from the local pub; surrounded by genuine wilderness, animals, and a certain amount of mud.
Expect dark narrow lanes, steep, uneven, boggy, rocky terrain, no signposts and no clearly defined paths.
Amazingly so close to London, just a ten minute walk from the house, and you can turn a full circle, no sign of mankind visible! This is walking boots and wellies country. Please bring your slippers, and your car (there is no taxi service for miles) but leave your pink jacket and white trainers at home.
Wydemeet is furnished for family and friends to relax in, offering sumptuous cosy comfort of the highest quality, recently upgraded in a ‘Jane Austen Romantic’ style, in complete sympathy with the architecture, location and mood of the house.
Nestled in a particularly beautiful, wild, and relatively unknown pocket of high Dartmoor, Wydemeet is a family home, less than a mile from the local pub; surrounded by genuine wilderness, animals, and a certain amount of mud.
Expect dark narrow lanes, steep, uneven, boggy, rocky terrain, no signposts and no clearly defined paths.
Amazingly so close to London, just a ten minute walk from the house, and you can turn a full circle, no sign of mankind visible! This is walking boots and wellies country. Please bring your slippers, and your car (there is no taxi service for miles) but leave your pink jacket and white trainers at home.
Ultimate Personal Service
Dartmoor has been our home for so long that we're privy to many of its best kept secrets!
We love sharing our knowledge, and are passionate that every one of our guests gets the very most out of their stay.
We have lots of books and maps for you to borrow, and will talk you through different walks and excursions, depending on your sense of adventure and fitness levels.
'Hound of the Baskervilles' deadly mire; War Horse filming locations; the best views, the highest hills .. We'll show you secret beauty and swimming spots, tell you the best places to eat; make up a little tour of places of local interest; talk you through the local towns and beaches, update you on local gossip, wash and dry your wet clothes, pop to the shops ...
We can arrange a fishing ghillie, private E-bike tours, bird-watching... and our house special: a walk with a polar explorer!
Check in and check out times are relaxed. Treat the house as your own, and come and go as you like. Pop your champagne in our fridge. Explore the large garden, or investigate our six acre field full of wild flowers. Have breakfast at 11 o’clock in your pyjamas and go back to bed if you want a lazy day – otherwise breakfast starts anytime after 9.00am.
Just give us an idea of what you fancy, and we'll sort it out for you.
We love sharing our knowledge, and are passionate that every one of our guests gets the very most out of their stay.
We have lots of books and maps for you to borrow, and will talk you through different walks and excursions, depending on your sense of adventure and fitness levels.
'Hound of the Baskervilles' deadly mire; War Horse filming locations; the best views, the highest hills .. We'll show you secret beauty and swimming spots, tell you the best places to eat; make up a little tour of places of local interest; talk you through the local towns and beaches, update you on local gossip, wash and dry your wet clothes, pop to the shops ...
We can arrange a fishing ghillie, private E-bike tours, bird-watching... and our house special: a walk with a polar explorer!
Check in and check out times are relaxed. Treat the house as your own, and come and go as you like. Pop your champagne in our fridge. Explore the large garden, or investigate our six acre field full of wild flowers. Have breakfast at 11 o’clock in your pyjamas and go back to bed if you want a lazy day – otherwise breakfast starts anytime after 9.00am.
Just give us an idea of what you fancy, and we'll sort it out for you.
The Finer Things
Elegant Dartmoor Accommodation
Included is a scrumptious AGA-cooked substantial breakfast of best quality produce, prepared to order – whatever you want, at more or less any time you like.
Best quality bacon, the tastiest sausages, orange-yolked eggs cooked to order however you choose, porridge, fresh fruit salad, artisan bread and warm croissants, smoked salmon, or our famous 'Pile' of smashed avocado, smoked salmon, spinach, poached egg and hollandaise. In fact, pretty much anything you can think of, accompanied by fresh orange juice, complete with bits.
The house is furnished throughout with deep pile carpets, heavy curtains, original paintings, photographs, old rugs and antiques. 100% Egyptian ironed cotton bed linen, thick, fluffy towels and bathrobes, The White Company toiletries, ground coffee, fresh milk, various teas, and big TVs.
The adjacent en-suite bathrooms both have baths with shower attachments, and the bigger one, with its view across the garden to the field beyond, also has a bidet, shower cubicle, and open fireplace.
And finally, we provide the very latest in ultrafast satellite WiFi technology - Starlink - invented by Elon Musk to fund his rockets!
Best quality bacon, the tastiest sausages, orange-yolked eggs cooked to order however you choose, porridge, fresh fruit salad, artisan bread and warm croissants, smoked salmon, or our famous 'Pile' of smashed avocado, smoked salmon, spinach, poached egg and hollandaise. In fact, pretty much anything you can think of, accompanied by fresh orange juice, complete with bits.
The house is furnished throughout with deep pile carpets, heavy curtains, original paintings, photographs, old rugs and antiques. 100% Egyptian ironed cotton bed linen, thick, fluffy towels and bathrobes, The White Company toiletries, ground coffee, fresh milk, various teas, and big TVs.
The adjacent en-suite bathrooms both have baths with shower attachments, and the bigger one, with its view across the garden to the field beyond, also has a bidet, shower cubicle, and open fireplace.
And finally, we provide the very latest in ultrafast satellite WiFi technology - Starlink - invented by Elon Musk to fund his rockets!
‘Scotland in the South!’
Salmon, sea trout and wild trout fishing is just outside our gate!
The house was built 100 years ago in central nothingness, near the confluence of the Swincombe and West Dart, as a luxurious fishing lodge.
Escape from the real world – walking, riding, cycling, fishing, wild swimming, climbing, kayaking, bird-watching, are all on the doorstep of our luxury B&B. There are even two golf courses built into the moorland itself, less than 20 minutes away!
For the less mobile, amazingly there is a smooth path suitable for old-fashioned prams, wheelchairs and walking sticks, possibly even zimmer frames, that takes you nearly two miles along the bank of the River Swincombe through total wilderness, not a soul in sight!
Cosy pubs and cream teas are a walk away.
Until recently Wydemeet was lived in by a famous polar explorer, and there are still various Arctic artifacts dotted about.
Situated on a dead-end lane leading to nowhere (well actually ending in a traditional Duchy hill farm complete with ponies, chickens, cows and sawmill), there is nothing here to disturb you or wake you up, save the neighing of the ponies on the moor outside the gate. Our back garden comprises all Dartmoor, ponies, sheep and belted galloways; buzzards, herons, kingfishers in the sky; trout and salmon waiting to be fished in the river.
It’s all rather like a mini-Scotland, but drier, warmer and sunnier, with fewer midges, and considerably closer to civilisation!
Escape from the real world – walking, riding, cycling, fishing, wild swimming, climbing, kayaking, bird-watching, are all on the doorstep of our luxury B&B. There are even two golf courses built into the moorland itself, less than 20 minutes away!
For the less mobile, amazingly there is a smooth path suitable for old-fashioned prams, wheelchairs and walking sticks, possibly even zimmer frames, that takes you nearly two miles along the bank of the River Swincombe through total wilderness, not a soul in sight!
Cosy pubs and cream teas are a walk away.
Until recently Wydemeet was lived in by a famous polar explorer, and there are still various Arctic artifacts dotted about.
Situated on a dead-end lane leading to nowhere (well actually ending in a traditional Duchy hill farm complete with ponies, chickens, cows and sawmill), there is nothing here to disturb you or wake you up, save the neighing of the ponies on the moor outside the gate. Our back garden comprises all Dartmoor, ponies, sheep and belted galloways; buzzards, herons, kingfishers in the sky; trout and salmon waiting to be fished in the river.
It’s all rather like a mini-Scotland, but drier, warmer and sunnier, with fewer midges, and considerably closer to civilisation!
Amazing Walks
The house sits in the centre of 365 sq miles of the Dartmoor National Park, surrounded by footpaths and bridleways. Four sets of ancient stepping stones across the Rivers Swincombe and Dart lie within half a mile.
An hour’s walk, and you will find yourself in the eerie village of Princetown and its famous prison. To the south is Fox Tor Mire, better known as ‘Grimpen Mire’ in 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', where a man drowned in it.
The house sits in the centre of 365 sq miles of the Dartmoor National Park, surrounded by footpaths and bridleways. Four sets of ancient stepping stones across the Rivers Swincombe and Dart lie within half a mile.
An hour’s walk, and you will find yourself in the eerie village of Princetown and its famous prison. To the south is Fox Tor Mire, better known as ‘Grimpen Mire’ in 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', where a man drowned in it.
Wydemeet, Central Dartmoor, Hexworthy, Yelverton, Devon, PL20 6SF
info@wydemeet-dartmoor.com
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+44 (0)7971 103279 |