Devon Sent

Evening Standard - London › April 30, 2004

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The entrepreneur Peter de Savary has turned a ruined castle in Dartmoor into a Twenties-style hotel complete with maids in French uniform.

Meredith Etherington-Smith joins her feathered friends

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Devon Sent

There aren't many hotels or private clubs for the rich, famous or just exhausted where you descend a huge baronial staircase on your way to your Full English breakfast to be greeted by a knickerbockered falconer with a foot-high European eagle owl called Merlin perched on his glove. Yet such is the endearing eccentricity of a weekend spent at Bovey ( pronounced as in luvvie) Castle, set on the lip of a deep and beautiful valley in the Dartmoo...

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