The Oxenham Arms
Location: South Zeal, Dartmoor, Devon, Okehampton, England, EX20 2JT, Okehampton, GB
Star Rating: 4 Stars
Property Type: Inns
About this Property
Recreation and Relaxation - Play a match on the outdoor tennis court, relax on the terrace, or take a stroll in the garden.
Fine Dining and Beverages - Indulge in authentic British cuisine at The Monastery restaurant, have a drink at one of the 2 bars/lounges, or opt for room service.
Comfortable Stay and Nearby Attractions - Enjoy pillowtop beds, complimentary breakfast, and modern amenities in the 7 guestrooms. Explore Dartmoor National Park and nearby attractions easily with the area shuttle.
Immerse yourself in a serene stay at The Oxenham Arms in Okehampton, perfectly situated near Dartmoor National Park. Book now for an unforgettable experience!
Important Information
- Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
Policies
Check-in: 03:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Check-out: 10:30 AM
Instructions: This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The front desk is open daily from 7:30 AM - 11:30 PM. This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in. The front desk is staffed during limited hours.
Amenities & Facilities
- Free breakfast
- Proposal/romance packages available
- Newspapers in lobby (surcharge)
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Free WiFi
- Terrace
- Garden
- Luggage storage
- Concierge service
- Wheelchair accessible
- Picnic area
- Library
- Free breakfast
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Smoke-free property
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Snack bar/deli
- Playground on site
- Free self parking
- Airport transportation - pickup (surcharge)
- Free English breakfast
- Newspapers in lobby (surcharge)
- Couples/private dining
- Proposal/romance packages available
- Horse riding nearby
Rooms Available
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Luxury Double Room, Mountain View (Bovey)
1 King Bed
204-sq-foot room with mountain views
Internet - Free WiFi
Entertainment - Flat-screen TV, digital channels, and DVD player
Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker, electric kettle, and room service
Sleep - Pillowtop bed, Egyptian cotton linens, and bed sheets
Bathroom - 7 bathrooms, shower, designer toiletries, and a hair dryer
Practical - Desk, iron/ironing board (on request), and wardrobe or closet
Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating
Non-Smoking
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Desk
- DVD player
- Private bathroom
- Heating
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Designer toiletries
- Premium bedding
- Room service
- Free WiFi
- Pillowtop mattress
- Bedsheets provided
- Champagne service
- Soap
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Luxury Double Room, Mountain View, Mountainside (Belstone)
1 Double Bed
161-sq-foot room with mountain views
Internet - Free WiFi
Entertainment - Flat-screen TV, digital channels, and DVD player
Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker, electric kettle, and room service
Sleep - Pillowtop bed, Egyptian cotton linens, and bed sheets
Bathroom - 7 bathrooms, shower/tub combination, designer toiletries, and a hair dryer
Practical - Desk, iron/ironing board (on request), and wardrobe or closet; cribs (free) available on request
Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating
Non-Smoking
Max Occupancy: 3 (2 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Desk
- DVD player
- Private bathroom
- Heating
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Designer toiletries
- Premium bedding
- Room service
- Free WiFi
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Bedsheets provided
- Champagne service
- Soap
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Double Room, 1 King Bed (Manaton)
1 King Bed
129-sq-foot room with valley views
Internet - Free WiFi
Entertainment - Flat-screen TV, digital channels, and DVD player
Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker, electric kettle, and room service
Sleep - Pillowtop bed, Egyptian cotton linens, and bed sheets
Bathroom - 7 bathrooms, shower, designer toiletries, and a hair dryer
Practical - Desk, iron/ironing board (on request), and wardrobe or closet; cribs (free) available on request
Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating
Non-Smoking
Max Occupancy: 3 (2 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Desk
- DVD player
- Private bathroom
- Heating
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Designer toiletries
- Premium bedding
- Room service
- Free WiFi
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Bedsheets provided
- Champagne service
- Soap
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Luxury Double Room (Lustleigh)
1 Double Bed
172-sq-foot room with mountain views
Internet - Free WiFi
Entertainment - Flat-screen TV, digital channels, and DVD player
Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker, electric kettle, and room service
Sleep - Pillowtop bed, Egyptian cotton linens, and bed sheets
Bathroom - 7 bathrooms, shower/tub combination, designer toiletries, and a hair dryer
Practical - Desk, iron/ironing board (on request), and wardrobe or closet; cribs (free) available on request
Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating
Non-Smoking
Max Occupancy: 3 (2 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Desk
- DVD player
- Private bathroom
- Heating
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Designer toiletries
- Premium bedding
- Room service
- Free WiFi
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Bedsheets provided
- Champagne service
- Soap
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Luxury Double Room, Mountain View, Mountainside (Chagford)
1 Double Bed
194-sq-foot room with mountain views
Internet - Free WiFi
Entertainment - Flat-screen TV, digital channels, and DVD player
Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker, electric kettle, and room service
Sleep - Pillowtop bed, Egyptian cotton linens, and bed sheets
Bathroom - 7 bathrooms, shower/tub combination, designer toiletries, and a hair dryer
Practical - Desk, iron/ironing board (on request), and wardrobe or closet; cribs (free) available on request
Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating
Non-Smoking
Max Occupancy: 3 (2 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Desk
- DVD player
- Private bathroom
- Heating
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Designer toiletries
- Premium bedding
- Room service
- Free WiFi
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Bedsheets provided
- Champagne service
- Soap
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Twin Room (Widecombe)
2 Twin Beds
172-sq-foot room with mountain views
Internet - Free WiFi
Entertainment - Flat-screen TV, digital channels, and DVD player
Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker, electric kettle, and room service
Sleep - Pillowtop bed, Egyptian cotton linens, and bed sheets
Bathroom - 7 bathrooms, shower/tub combination, designer toiletries, and a hair dryer
Practical - Desk, iron/ironing board (on request), and wardrobe or closet; cribs (free) available on request
Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating
Non-Smoking
Max Occupancy: 3 (2 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Desk
- DVD player
- Private bathroom
- Heating
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Designer toiletries
- Premium bedding
- Room service
- Free WiFi
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Bedsheets provided
- Champagne service
- Soap
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Luxury Double Room (Lydford)
1 Double Bed
183-sq-foot room with valley views
Internet - Free WiFi
Entertainment - Flat-screen TV, digital channels, and DVD player
Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker, electric kettle, and room service
Sleep - Pillowtop bed, Egyptian cotton linens, and bed sheets
Bathroom - 7 bathrooms, shower/tub combination, designer toiletries, and a hair dryer
Practical - Desk, iron/ironing board (on request), and wardrobe or closet; cribs (free) available on request
Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating
Non-Smoking
Max Occupancy: 3 (2 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Desk
- DVD player
- Private bathroom
- Heating
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Designer toiletries
- Premium bedding
- Room service
- Free WiFi
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Bedsheets provided
- Champagne service
- Soap
Guest Reviews
- Vanessa (10/5): - Everything was first class
- Gillian (8/5): Recommend hotel. - Very historic and interesting building. Comfortable rooms, except some were a little chilly despite open fires.
- Adrian (10/5): What a gem. - This was an unscheduled stop on route to Cornwall due to bad weather. What a pleasant surprise, a beautiful old Inn a short distance from the A30. The staff were friendly and helpful, great service a lovely evening meal and an excellent breakfast. We will definitely be returning with hopefully better weather.
- Brett (10/5): - Amazing hotel, amazing friendly staff. Felt at home with them. Bonus was the food was truly outstanding. Would recommend and we will be back soon. 5 star plus!!!
- Claire (10/5): Honest British Reviewer - Outstanding from beginning to end. Great staff, great room, Loved the 4 poster bed, great evening meal (we had lamb dinner and mushroom gnocchi) quality good food. Were planning to go back near Christmas as it was such an all rounder great stay. Not the cheapest but nothing is cheap nowadays and the old saying ‘you get what you pay for’ applies here.
- Julie (10/5): - Wonderful hosts and lovely room. Our 3rd stay and we will be back again.
- Chris (10/5): The Great Escape - Great place to escape to. Always a warm (and humorous) welcome from the host. Lovely location and local walks. Fab food and lots of historic references including ancient Menhir inside the pub and stones in the garden! Will be back
- Ian (10/5): Great pub with rooms - Turning up late, they kept the kitchen open for me and the food was excellent (and again in the morning!) History is palpable throughout but the creature comforts are well taken care of
- Verified traveler (8/5): Interesting hotel with lots of history - A warm welcome on arrival. Very fruendly landlord. Excellent food in the restaurant and a good breakfast cooked to order. Our room was spacious and clean. The only negative from me was that the mattress in the Bovey room was thin and I could feel the springs, so not the best nights sleep.
- William (10/5): - The Oxenham Arms was a pleasure to stay at. So much history well told plus good service and hospitality.
- Janet (10/5): - Beautiful setting near Dartmoor. Very peaceful in a historic place. Staff very friendly nothing too much trouble.
- Andrew M (10/5): Great Place to stay - Truly amazing pub full of history. Food and drink is excellent and staff very friendly
- sarah (10/5): - This is a unique pub, with historic connections, and recent celebrity visitors which was a big surprise.Very cosy and very friendly, with excellent service and food.
- Amanda (10/5): - This lovely Hotel is steeped in history. The rooms are beautifully decorated and the food is very good indeed. Simon, Lyn and John are excellent hosts. We hope to return again soon.
- Verified traveler (10/5): - Excellent little hotel.
- Verified traveler (10/5): Great stay. - Excellent hotel friendly and helpful staff. Food excellent.
- Verified traveler (8/5): - A beautiful setting with a fascinating history . Unfortunately the food was rather disappointing
- David (10/5): Sleep well on a ley line. - Last minute stay. Good room, good dinner and breakfast, helpful and friendly host and such an interesting place with its history.
- Gemma (10/5): - Amazing comfortable beds, superb area for a peaceful, relaxing beak. Plenty of walks or pubs to do! Staff and owners are all lovely.
- Ian (10/5): Wonderful stay - We had a wonderful welcome and great food each evening during our stay in this historic hotel.
- David (8/5): - Lovely, historic hotel with very friendly staff and good service.
- Judy (10/5): Great break - Charming hosts, lovely food reasonably priced Very interesting place to stay
- Brian (10/5): Birthday treat - Loads of history, great food, good service and spotlessly clean. What a lovely stay.
- Verified traveler (10/5): - Very pleasant and enjoyable stay..
- RobandJackie (8/5): - Lovely old historic property which has been decorated and furnished in an atmospheric style. Very comfortable 4-poster bed in our room. Walking guide (one of 5) was very well written and useful, got some amazing views from atop the nearby peak. The dinners were excellent and the wine choice extensive. Staff are very friendly and made us feel welcome. Very few negatives and only small improvements needed. Some staff training issues around restaurant service and housekeeping which were apologised for and didn't spoil our stay but for the price being charged we wouldn't have expected these little lapses to occur.
- Nick (10/5): An amazing stay with fabtastic food - Had an amazing stay. Food was beautiful. The hotel recommended a 5mile circular walk which we did was was also beautiful. Friendly staff too!
- Nicola (10/5): Loved our stay - Fell in love with the hotel, friendly owners, great food, rooms in keeping with the character of the building. Will go back
- Robert (10/5): Spectacular Hotel! - I found the Oxenham Arms Hotel absolutely spectacular. The service was impeccable and the staff were friendly and always helpful. One couldn't ask for a better place to stay in England. A beautiful ancient hotel and well-appointed with great food and fun people. What more could one ask for? I will definitely be back back. How could I not come because I loved my room and the hotel so much!
- Barry (8/5): - Great food and comfortable stay, just s shame the breakfast didn’t start until 08.30 as we had to leave earlier for work.
- Kerry (10/5): Gorgeous place - Honestly, absolutely perfect. The staff couldn’t have been more friendly and helpful, the room was absolutely gorgeous and really well equipped. The restaurant produced some amazing food and were more than happy to amend things for my restrictive diet. My partner was very impressed with the wine list too! We went running a couple of times and there were some great routes. The whole area was stunning.
- Mats (10/5): Fantastisk pubmiljö! - Fantastisk pub med mycket trevlig och vänlig personal. Det ligger långt ute på landet med få sevärdheter i närheten men det är absolut värt mödan att ta sig dit. Varm och vänlig atmosfär. Rummet spännande och bekvämt, fantastiska middagar och bra frukostar. Rekommenderas varmt!
- Philipp (10/5): Wunderschönes altes Hotel, hervorragendes Essen - Wunderschönes altes Hotel bzw. Inn mit Geschichte, inklusive Restaurant/Pub mit hervorragendem Essen. Herzliche und aufmerksame Besitzer, ruhige Lage, tolle alte Zimmer mit Himmelbett. Haben uns sehr wohl gefühlt, war das beste Hotel in unserer England-Reise. Wonderful historic hotel with excellent food, amazing rooms; by far the nicest place to stay during our South England trip. Very nice owners. Highly recommended! Philipp, Vienna
- Rudolf (10/5): Very satisfying! - Wonderful old building, clean and quiet rooms, nice hosts, excellent food.
- Verified traveler (10/5): - Amazing historical interest, friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Bed was huge and very comfortable.
- Verified traveler (10/5): - Beautiful building. Very friendly, welcoming and helpful staff. They were wonderful. Delicious food, and excellent beers.
- Verified traveler (10/5): - Fantastic experience. John and the landlady Lyn we’re particularly welcoming. We had a beautiful room and the food was delicious. We will defiantly be back.
- Teresa (10/5): The Oxenham arms . - The room and location were lovely , we had a four poster bed in what was the Abbots room , the history of this place is amazing , the staff were all friendly and helpful and the food excellent , we would highly recommend The Oxenham Arms .
- Roger (10/5): - Given 5/5 because there is no reason to mark anything else ! The staff and owners are very welcoming and attentive. Quality food well cooked and presented, good menu choice at dinner and good fruit cereal along with traditional english breakfast for the mornings. Historic building providing interest and ambience warm with central heating and open fires. Rooms ensuite with four poster beds,spotlessly clean and comfortable. We shall retutn.
- Verified traveler (10/5): A dip into history - Old (very old) inn which has been modernised in traditional style. Where else can you sleep in the bed Dickens slept in or dine beside an ancient standing stone? Add to that good food well presented and an excellent wine list and it adds up a very satisfying stay. But don’t expect the floors to be even...
- Verified traveler (8/5): Historic Devon moorland hotel - Located in unspoilt moorland village of South Zeal, this hotel, which is an 800 yr old former monastery, is a lovely place to stay and escape to and use as base for exploring the moors.
- Graham (6/5): - The stay was okay. Good points: nice bar and food perfectly good. Service was very good and the welcome very warm. On the other hand, I found my room very warm - it was September with average temperatures and I was surprised that there was no soap in the bathroom, which looked a bit tired.
- Michael (10/5): Everything you expect and more - Fantastic location warm welcome,amazing food. The perfect place to relax or sightsee.will definitely go back again
- Verified traveler (10/5): - Lovely hotel in a really nice village where a warm welcome greeted us. Friendly staff and a bit a a gem in the lovely South Zeal
- Malcolm (10/5): - Great hotel for traditional service and rooms. Breakfast was good but Coffee could be better.
- Andrew (10/5): Steeped in history - Amazing hotel/pub steeped in history with warm hospitality and excellent food and service.
- Kim (10/5): Nice place - Everything was excellent, staff,hotel and the food was some of the best meals we have ever had. Not much parking but got a space both days. Planning on going back In the summer.
- Verified traveler (10/5): Great place to stay - Great place to stay. Very quiet and beautiful location. Extremely helpful and friendly staff.
- R (8/5): Refurbished older pub hotel - We stayed just one night in this hotel. We chose it as it is not pet friendly! Whereas many other local hotels are. However there are two resident cats but our allergies were not affected The hotel has loads of character, the owner was most helpful and the English breakfast very good. We did not stay for dinner so I am not able to comment. The room was well furnished with a four poster bed. The bathroom was large and completely refurbished and worked well. Our only issue was that it was very cold outside (zero C) and the room was a little cool, despite the radiators being on. Overall a good experience.
- Ryan (10/5): A lot of History here. - A very pleasant one night stay in a beautiful old building. Stayed in the 'Lustleigh' room which is above the main bar, I imagine it could be rather noisy on a busy evening but it was quiet enough for us. View is across the not very busy main street. Dinner was very nice as was breakfast, currently undergoing some repair work in the main breakfast dining area but looked to be ready for completion soon. We found the mattress a little too hard but not so as too be too uncomfortable.
- Michala (10/5): Highly recommend - Beautiful hotel, great food and friendly service... will definitely go back
- Mark (10/5): Great accommodation in excellent location - The Oxenham Arms is situated in a lovely little village and is a great base from which to explore Dartmoor, Exeter, Bude, Clovelly. So many great places can be accessed easily from this warm and friendly hotel. The staff are so attentive and welcoming, the food in the restaurant is amazing and the building has a lot of charm and character.
- P Harvey (10/5): - Last minute booking but a gem of a find. Would recommend a visit
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