Dartmoor, Devon - Self Catering - Stag & Hen Parties, Weddings & Large Family Holidays

The house has successfully accommodated tuitional and religious retreats, academic and alternative therapy courses, wedding groups, corporate team-building weekends, college reunions, stag and hen parties, big family holidays, birthday parties, day seminars, and school camps in the adjoining hay meadow. Outside caterers are also familiar with the Old Mine House

Perfect for groups, hen & stag parties and weddings - sleeps 18 - 20 - Self Catering

The house is ideally situated between two recently designated World Heritage Sites - the exciting Jurassic Coast and the historic tin mining centres of Cornwall and West Devon.

The Dart and Tamar rivers are close for canoeists; mountain bikers seek out moorland bridleways and Sustrans cycle routes; golfers have three courses very close, riding is available at two friendly centres and walkers can reach the nearest tor within the hour, straight off the property. Contact details are also available for lake and sea fishing, ballooning, climbing/abseiling, quad-biking, clay pigeon shooting, 4x4 instruction, paintballing, canoeing, caterers, birthday cakes, good food pubs, and even mini bus and limo rental. If you don't see what you want, ask, and Ian will hopefully find it for you!

Horrabridge, once a tin-mining village, is within easy walking distance and has most things, including baker, newsagent, post office, Methodist and Anglican churches, barber, vet, fish & chip shop, late store, video rentals, two excellent food pubs, and a hardware shop that sells everything else!

As a welcome gift on arrival, you will find on the kitchen table a VERY BIG fruit pie (with Devonshire clotted cream), freshly made especially for you by Mr. Honey, our local village baker.

Plymouth , with all its seafaring traditions, cinemas, theatres and National Marine Aquarium is ten miles away, with historic Exeter , the county town, easily reached across Dartmoor within the hour; going west only six miles puts you in Cornwall . Even closer, the busy town of Tavistock(just named, best food town in the Westcountry 2006) embraces an arts centre and cinema, swimming pool, tennis courts, river park, big Morrisons, colourful pannier market, Tourist Information, and several good restaurants and specialist shops.

Everyone should sample Dartmoor during their stay, first enlightened by Princetown's High Moorland Visitor Centre – picnic at the quiet reservoirs, marvel at Lydford Gorge's White Lady waterfall, conquer a few of the majestic tors in the footsteps of the tinners, relive some of the legends that inspired Conan Doyle or simply head for a cosy village pub with the Sunday papers. Add to that four National Trust properties, spectacular flower gardens, steam railway, mining museum and port, and empty, hidden South Hams beaches, and one has most things for a perfect stay. The weather, meanwhile, goes with the territory and could change in the time it takes to read this!

Peaceful Burrator reservoir, just 3 miles from the house

Visit essential - dog optional

Pew Tor, our nearest tor and easily walkable in an hour.