Lydgate House Hotel

After reading another persons review on Facebook regarding their afternoon tea experience at Lydgate hotel, I thought it would be nice to take my elderly friend who is unfortunately in the first stages of dementia, but still enjoys going out. We live about an hours drive away, but it’s a lovely scenic drive across the moors, to the quiet little village of Postbridge. We were a little early so decided to stop in the car park and visit the National Park Visitor Centre and took a stroll down to the famous clapper bridge. The drive down to Lydgate was along a lane with an avenue of trees at which the quaint little hotel is at the end of. You could almost mistake it for a house as it’s so cute. We were met at the door by Kelly whom I had spoken to when I rang and booked our afternoon tea. Immediately she was welcoming and friendly and very good with my friend Penny, as I had already mentioned during our phone conversation, had dementia. The weather was superb that day so Kelly asked if we would prefer to sit outside on the balcony, which we did. The views were absolutely stunning. Our tea/coffee were served in bone china cups, very fitting. The afternoon tea was delicious and consisted of a variety of lovely sandwiches, quiche, scones jam and cream and three, yes three mouth watering cakes. Kelly made sure we were okay and that everything was to our satisfaction, which of course it was, but it was lovely to be asked. She conversed with us several times and kept us topped up with tea. She was a lovely pleasant lady and made the whole experience even more enjoyable. I highly recommend this place and will definitely be returning.

Great location for numerous Dartmoor walks, very comfortable, clean and warm cottage and excellent staff to greet us and look after us if we needed help or advice. Very enjoyable stay and we hope to return soon, thanks to all involved for your hospitality.

Just returned from our annual holiday at this fantastic hotel , John, Sarah and Kelly are fantastic host nothing is to much trouble for them .we had evening meals every night there is a great choice and so tasty , breakfast was also very good too . The scenery and sound of the river flowing down the valley is just so relaxing, already booked for next year