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Our Christmas Greetings and best wishes for Christmas 2017.  We hope you have a memorable day with family and friends.  Ian, Lorena and Rufus. Photo – Geese on West Withy Farm lake.

@Top50Gastropubs Exmoor pubs were celebrating yesterday in London when the winners of the UK Gastropubs of the Year were announced. Three of our favourite local pubs finished in the @Top50Gastropubs. All three feature in our list of our favourite local eateries for our guests to try when staying in our cottages. See our recommendations at […]

A weekend of stargazing and winter joy in Exmoor Zoe Dawes – aka The Quirky Traveller – stayed at West Withy Farm on her visit to Exmoor in December 2016. Zoe timed her visit to allow her to experience a sky tour with Seb Jay in her cottage at West Withy Farm and the delights […]

Zoe Dawes, The Quirky Traveller visited Exmoor in early December 2016 staying in Upton Cottage, West Withy Farm for her 2 day visit. It was an action packed trip including a sky tour with Seb Jay of Dark Sky Telescope Hire, a meal in Woods in Dulverton, trips to Lynmouth and Dunster by Candlelight. Over […]

Bradt – publishers of the Slow Guide series of travel books, held a competition as part of the launch of  the  new edition of Slow Guide to North Devon and Exmoor. The competition involved writing an article entitled – ‘My perfect day in North Devon and Exmoor’. Winners of the Bradt competition – the Holland McGhee family – […]

So what would you do for your significant other?  Would it be – ‘true love’ or ‘look after yourself’?  And would each have the same interpretation of the same action? And how would you approach the subject? Perhaps this – Gigi (our cockerel) to Josephine yesterday.  Hey Jo, are you good?  beautiful day today.  Just been […]

Happy New Year. Very Best Wishes for 2016 to you all from Lorena and I. We took our first booking today using our new online booking system and with deposit payment made by credit card. It was really quite painless for us – I was having breakfast at the time. Our thanks to John, Caroline […]

A week long holiday at West Withy Farm on Exmoor is the prize for the winner of  a Bradt Slow Guide competition.  The week long, self catering stay at West Withy Farm and an evening skytour with Seb Jay of Dark Sky Telescope Hire during the holiday on Exmoor is the winner’s prize in the competition to launch […]