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Sourton
Sourton lies below the north western moor a few miles from Okehampton, a small village on the old road south with the great whaleback of the northern high ground rising behind it. The church of St Thomas a Becket stands apart from the village, and the parish reaches up onto some of the highest and emptiest ground in southern England.
The village is best known for the Highwayman Inn, an extraordinary building fitted out over decades into something between a pub and a fantasy, and quite unlike anywhere else in Devon. Above the village, Sourton Tors carry the remains of a nineteenth century ice works, where shallow ponds were used to make ice for the Plymouth fish trade, one of the odder industries the moor has supported. The Granite Way, on the bed of the old railway, passes close by and gives easy walking and cycling with the moor alongside.
Sourton on the map
In Sourton
Collaven Manor Hotel
Sourton, Okehampton
Nestling on the North West edge of Dartmoor, this beautiful small 15th century manor house, built of granite and covered in creeper, stands in four acres of picturesque gardens and paddocks.
The Highwayman Inn
Sourton, Okehampton
Allegedly haunted 11th-century inn at Sourton, packed with artefacts and curiosities, offering classic guestrooms and hearty food.
