A Bronze Age settlement of two dozen hut circles inside a stone enclosure wall, high on the moor between Widecombe and Postbridge. English Heritage lists it as dog friendly and there is no gate or ticket, but the whole approach is grazed common land, which is the honest caveat on all of central Dartmoor.
These are the parts only the business can add. We check the dog policy and stamp the date — photos, prices and their own words are theirs to put in, and this listing is waiting for them.
What it looks like with a dog in the picture.
Entry, parking, whether the dog goes free.
Can the dog actually sleep here, and what does it cost.
Which parts of the site, and whether leads are required.
Claiming fills every box above, and lets you reply to reviews when they open. £15 a month, no contract, and it never changes the verdict — the stamp stays ours.
The big fourteenth-century inn beside the church in Widecombe, geared to walkers coming off the moor. The house line is that they are very doggy friendly and always have a treat waiting, and the walled garden takes the overflow on a summer Sunday.
Four miles up onto the finest small ridge on the moor, two and a quarter hours with 320 metres of climbing on lane, then open moor grass and granite over Bonehill Rocks, Bell Tor, Chinkwell and Honeybag. Start at the paid village car park at Widecombe beside the church and the Rugglestone Inn, which has toilets and fills with coach parties in the afternoon, or park free on the moor edge at Bonehill and shorten the climb. Everything above the last gate is common grazing with sheep, cattle and ponies all year, so leads are required from 1 March to 31 July and sensible whenever stock is close; there is a stream below Bonehill for a drink but nothing on the ridge, and the granite clitter between the tors is hard on soft paws.
Nobody has written one for Grimspound. If you have been with the dog, you would be the first — and the first review is the one everybody reads.
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