51.1346° N, 3.6462° W
It’s easy to pigeonhole England’s south-west as overrun with visitors, yet there is a national park here that is one of the UK’s least visited. The reason perhaps lies with its location, in the shadow of its Devon neighbour. Indeed, when I told one person I was heading to Exmoor for a break, they queried: “Do you mean Dartmoor?”
Straddling Somerset and Devon, this national park spans 693 sq km of high moorland covered in heather and gorse, steeply-wooded coombes (valleys), crystal-clear rivers, medieval bridges and fords. And then there’s the dramatic coastline too, with mainland Britain’s highest sea cliff and the second-highest tidal range in the world (after
