Discover a range of country cottages, barn conversions, farmhouses, and lodges with swimming pools set on working farms across Dartmoor.
Dartmoor is one of Britain’s most dramatic landscapes, and a farm stay with a pool here offers a combination that feels almost contradictory until you experience it. The moor is unforgiving country, with fast-changing weather, tors swept by wind and rain, and challenging walking, which makes returning to a private pool on a Dartmoor farm at the end of the day one of the more restorative experiences a British holiday can offer. Many of the farms here sit in the valleys that run off the high moor, that are naturally sheltered and considerably warmer than the exposed granite plateau above them, making outdoor pool use more viable than the moor’s reputation might suggest. Dartmoor’s dark skies mean that an evening swim here comes with a view of the stars that is hard to find anywhere else in south west England.
