Three Hares Campsite

Three Hares Campsite is on the edge of the village of Drewsteignton in the Teign Valley in the northern part of Dartmoor National Park. It’s less than three miles from the National Trust’s Castle Drogo, which overlooks the dramatic Teign Gorge. You can look around the castle and its garden, enjoy the tea room and go for riverside walks through the wooded gorge below. There are, of course, plenty of places for walking in the national park including on the Two Moors Way – which, at its extremes, links Exmoor with Dartmoor and the south coast of Devon. There are also lots of opportunities for wild swimming including at Salmon Leap near Castle Drogo in the River Teign or at Fingle Bridge (near the pub) or in the River Dart. And if that’s too wild for you, head instead for the open-air pool in the pretty town of Chagford (five miles). Another National Trust site is Finch Foundry (six miles) where you can see how a working forge was run.

Eggs and homegrown veg are sometimes on offer in reception – check in for supplements to your meals but there’s also a good farm shop and butchers, Oinkers, about two miles down the road. It has a cafe on the same site that usually opens in summer. For more than that, head to Chagford (five miles) or to Morehamptonstead (nine miles) for general grocery shops and independents. For a supermarket, head 10 miles to Okehampton. The closest pub is the community-owned Drewe Arms in Drewsteignton itself, about a mile from the campsite. A little further, but still not much more than two miles from Three Hares Campsite, is the Fingle Bridge Inn which is scenically situated on the riverside. In Chagford, there are more pubs including The Three Crowns and The Globe Inn.