COTTAGE HOLIDAY DEVON

Traveling Photographer

In England

We spent a week in South Brent at the foot of Dartmoor overlooking Lydia Bridge from our second floor bedroom in Wisteria Cottage.

We brought back wonderful memories and inspiring photos from the Dartmoor countryside.

We highly recommend as a cottage holiday Devon, just 3 to 4 hours from London. It is a slower, quieter more peaceful world.

Dartmoor, mysterious in novels, but glorious to us, is a green farming region crested by semi-barren hills.

A favorite recreation of residents (and us!) is walking the moors - an incredible number of acres is available to the public.

Dining is a time warp to a simpler time. Devonshire cream is the pride of the region served with warm scones in a variety of tea rooms and pubs, or cooked into sauces, custards and dinner and desert puddings.

Convivial pubs where good food is plentiful and dogs are always welcome;

Devonshire cream or custard smothering scrumptious lemon meringue pie;

Unexpected contorted rock formations called Tors which jut up from the rolling moors, and provide adventure for Tor climbers;
Golden gorse bushes hugging the hills which are gently dotted with wooly sheep;

Stone walls bordering winding narrow one track roads;

Wild Dartmoor ponies roaming the untamed wilderness;

Flower garlanded gardens;

Panoramic Dartmoor vistas to distant hills;

Tumbling brooks and streaming waterfalls;

Lush green grass and foliage defining the boundary of the uninhabited wild moors cresting the hills.

Click here for a 1960 photo of Wisteria Cottage which includes my review of our honeymoon and our first cottage holiday Devon - our favorite British locale.

We especially loved the sixteenth century converted Lydia Mill where we were privledged to stay.

At Wisteria Cottage, our home for this trip, we felt one with the country. Gradually we began to imagine staying longer as our cottage holiday Devon seeped inside us.

Our cozy Dartmoor cottage was built in the 1500's with a second floor added in some later century.

We treasured the beamed ceiling, tiny windows and winding stone staircase to our bedroom which overlooks the waterfall. The house practically sits on the narrow bridge and the road.

Rhododendrums in full bloom stretched to at least seven or eight feet beneath our window.

The sound of hooves on the road would send us scrambling for our cameras.

Five minutes later we were on South Brent's main street.

The Cooperative Market provided free range eggs, Devon grown chicken and beef and Devonshire cream for our couple of meals at our 'home' during our cottage holiday Devon. Cornish pasties or beef and kidney pies were easlily available in a pub or bakery to munch in the car or on the moor while we explored.

Legendary Dartmoor* is also the perfect environment for hiking and horseback riding, and even biking.

Despite the steep twisting roads, we saw lots of bikes and many of the riders had hair as white as mine!

Sheep and lambs, dogs and flowers are loved in apparently equal measure and they are everywhere.

Dartmoor Sheep ran away from us and toward the gate to the next pasture when we approached. Curious steers crowded their gate to peer over the top at us.

Instead of our very American sneakers, the practical Brits wear their Wellingtons (tall rubber boots) to explore the paths and fields of Dartmoor accompanied often by their well behaved dogs.

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