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Description: The Six Watermill Cottages have been tastefully converted from the buildings, barns and labourers cottages surrounding the owner's C18th Mill House. Pam offers a selection of delicious home cooked dishes using the best local produce, which you can order daily knowing your food will be ready for you to heat up when you get home. The cottages lie is a secluded wooded valley on the banks of the River Gara, 1 mile inland from Start Bay.
Accommodation
Each cottage provides spacious, comfortable accommodation with modern fitted kitchens and bathrooms with baths and showers. All have their own washing machines and microwaves.
Mill, Crownwheel, Quack, Rose & Barleycorn have wood burning stoves. The first basket of logs is free, additional baskets are paid for at cost.
The cottages all have night storage heating and additional electric heating to keep them warm.
Each cottage has its own outside seating in a garden or patio. There is also a large garden leading down to the riverside with picnic benches, tables and BBQ.
Buntings (sleeps 4 ): Lower part of old water mill, all on one level. 1 double bedroom and 1 room with off-set bunks.
Barleycorn (sleeps 4 ): A spacious cottage at the top of the old mill. Stone steps to back veranda. Open plan dining, kitchen, sitting room with large millstone set into the floor and massive oak beams. 1 double and 1 twin room. Enclosed garden
Mill Cottage (sleeps 6 or 5 +cot):Open plan dining room, kitchen and living room upstairs with, 1 double, 1 twin and 1 bunk-bedded room.
Crownwheel (sleeps 6): A converted barn with 2 ground floor bedrooms (1 double, 1 bunks) and a twin room in the loft. 2 bathrooms. Pation and garden.
Quack (sleeps 3): Idyllic stone cottage with 1 double and 1 single room. Large enclosed garden.
Rose Cottage (sleeps 4): Carefully restored stone built cottage with 1 double and 1 twin bedroom. 2 bathrooms. Large enclosed garden and sunny deck.
- Cots and highchairs are available.
- Freshly Ironed bed linen is supplied but please bring your own towels.
- Heating and hot water included
- Day rate electricity paid for on departure.
- Well behaved pets welcome by arrangement at a nominal charge. Very pet friendly.
- Ample parking.
Location: Higher North Mill and the surrounding stone built Watermill Cottages stand alone in a secluded, partly wooded valley on the banks of the river Gara, just over a mile inland from Start Bay between Dartmouth and Kingsbridge.
The typical steep sided Devon valley remains virtually untouched by modern intervention. And, with practically no passing traffic, it is a peaceful haven full of wild flowers and animals. There are lots of walks for people and dogs to enjoy in and around the valley, plenty of wood and wetland birds to observe and small brown trout to fish for.
For children, this area offers a freedom rare to find in today's world. Described rather apply by on mother as Enid Blyton country, there's a traffic-free valley to explore, woods to play in and the river to dam and race boats on. As the river rarely runs at more than knee height, children can paddle safely. There are eggs to collect and in the spring there may be lambs to bottle-feed.
Things to do
We are within easy reach of so many things to see and do its hard to know where to begin.
- Over 15 beaches within 30 minutes drive: swimming, surfing, rock pooling, windsurfing, sailing and sea fishing.
- South West Peninsular Coast Path
- Slapton Ley Filed Centre (guided walks and bird-watching).
- Riding (10 minutes, Walking, sailing,
- 3 excellent golf courses
- 2 trout fisheries
- 2 leisure parks, farms, steam trains, boat trips
- Local towns: Dartmouth, Kingsbridge Salcombe, Totnes and pretty hamlets to explore
- Several National Trust properties and gardens
- Numerous village pubs with famous Devon cider or locally brewed beers
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