Nestling beside the West Dart River, in 60 acres of private grounds at the very heart of the Dartmoor National Park, the hotel is reminiscent of a bygone age of opulence with the added extravagance of today’s little luxuries. Built in 1794 as a coaching inn at the opening of the trans-moor turnpike, the property was originally called ’The Saracen’s Head’. It only gained its present name in the early 1900s when the modern road was completed.