Britain on the Cheap

Save 20% and enjoy a free home-cooked hamper meal one night when you book a week at The Bothy, a little 16th-century cottage in east Devon. The week is now £368/$587, saving £92/$147 until July 15, then £525/$838, saving £131/$209, including a welcome food hamper and a bottle of wine.

Cozy cottages—even some that welcome pets–are available 20% off through February from Toad Hall Cottages. Lime Cottage, in the old quarter of the Somerset coastal resort of Minehead, has views of the sea and coastline. Reduced to £200/$320 per week, saving £50/$77, it sleeps up to four. The Bolt Hole offers shared use of an [...]

Starting today, Combe House, Devon Hotel of the Year 2010, is offering a four-night dinner and B&B stay for the price of three. The Grade I Elizabethan manor house has mid-week breaks until March 31 from £525/$839 per person in a superior kingsize double room, a savings of at least £350/$560 based on two sharing [...]

Hideways is offering two fall discounts in the West Country. Royal Oak Farmhouse, in the heart of the Exmoor village of Winsford, dates back to the 14th century. Recently updated, the cottage retains its open fireplaces and ceiling beams. When four share it is reduced to £361/$571 for three nights, saving £178/$282 until Oct. 14. [...]

Dog lovers who like to hike with their pets might be interested in Helpful Holidays’ old beamed cottages on Devon’s Dartmoor. Water Barn, an ancient granite barn at Manaton, now sleeps four; it’s offered for £525/$816 a week in September. It’s ref A111 for online booking. Near Drewsteignton on Dartmoor are three “upside-down” cottages converted [...]

Save 20% on holiday homes on the South Devon coast in September with Toad Hall Cottages. Seascape, walking distance to Thurlestone Sands, sleeps six, with a garden and furnished patio. Weekly rental is £396/$608 (saving £99/$152) until Sept. 24, then £260/$399 the following week (saving £65/$100). Maelcombe House is the wing of an Edwardian mansion [...]

It’s not too early to think about Halloween in the UK. The Royal Oak Foundation, the U.S. affiliate to the National Trust, has scouted out scary happenings at medieval castles and venerable estates, and suggested nearby overnights at National Trust properties. Royal Oak members receive access to more than 300 historic houses without paying an [...]

Helpful Holidays has a few cottage deals for the late August Bank Holiday weekend. A converted barn with hot tub, sleeping six, in North Devon’s Heddon Valley, near the coastal village of Combe Martin, has been reduced 20% for the late August Bank Holiday weekend. It’s now £588/$917 for three nights starting Aug. 27. Tucked [...]

The Dartmouth Golf and Country Club in south Devon has unlimited  golf packages available for summer from £85/$130 per person, including accommodation. The package is for one night’s B&B with two days’ unlimited golf, based on a group of six. The club has an 18-hole Championship Course and its nine-hole sister-layout, The Dartmouth.

Two cottages in Devon’s South Hams region are discounted this month for seven-night stays: 16th-century Church Cottage in Thurlestone, sleeping four, is near a sandy beach and links course. Rental is now £433/$631 per week, saving £108/$157 until July 2. Sandycoombe, also sleeping four and within a walk of the wooded banks of the Avon [...]