Indulge your guilty holiday pleasure: sit back and soak up West Country views…
Stopping to smell the roses is a big part of the West Country
holiday culture. If gazing idly at a glorious view is your guilty pleasure, take
a look at this selection of holiday homes.
Sandsgate, three
miles from Chagford in Devon, is a magnificent
detached house with superb
sweeping views across the river Teign valley to Chagford, the
National Trust’s Castle Drogo and the moors beyond. It has just been beautifully refurbished and extended,
so you can enjoy it as one family or with a larger group of family and friends.
The quarter-of-a-mile driveway approaching the house, set in 18 acres of
gardens and woodland, makes the perfect start for a special gathering.
Apartment16 is just 20 yards from the beach at Bigbury-on-Sea, South Hams - a
perfect vantage point from which to enjoy the shifting panorama. The tide below
the first floor apartment will creep in, giving waterside views to Burgh
Island, and drift out again, revealing a huge expanse
of smooth washed yellow sand. The island's jolly pub, The Pilchard, is fun to
visit, whether you walk across the beach or take the long-legged sea tractor at
high tide. Visitors can also enjoy the leisure club, including a smart bar and
kidney-shaped pool.
Salcombe is one of the most beautifully sited small towns in
Britain. It sits at the mouth of the Kingsbridge estuary, where the spacious Underbecks is
perched, looking out over bobbing yachts and South Sands’ golden beach. The
loungers on the enclosed terrace are in an ideal spot for taking in the
sensational views upstream to Salcombe itself. When it’s time to go and
explore, boats can be hired locally and the National Trust’s Overbecks is less
than half a mile away.
For a real taste of West Country history, head to the once famous
Elizabethan port and beautifully kept old town of Dartmouth. At Last is a
Grade II listed town house with views over the river Dart to Kingswear and
situated just above Bayards Cove – the oldest part of Dartmouth's
harbour with cobbled quayside.
Apartment16 is just 20 yards from the beach at Bigbury-on-Sea, South Hams - a
perfect vantage point from which to enjoy the shifting panorama. The tide below
the first floor apartment will creep in, giving waterside views to Burgh
Island, and drift out again, revealing a huge expanse
of smooth washed yellow sand. The island's jolly pub, The Pilchard, is fun to
visit, whether you walk across the beach or take the long-legged sea tractor at
high tide. Visitors can also enjoy the leisure club, including a smart bar and
kidney-shaped pool.
