Formerly a 17th Century coaching inn, Browns Hotel is the oldest licensed premises in Tavistock and was rebuilt by the seventh Duke of Bedford on the site of an earlier hostelry.

Recently totally refurbished with loving care, Browns is full of charm and is the perfect base for exploring and touring the beautiful countryside and pretty villages of Devon and Cornwall.

Warm, intimate and exclusive, with just twenty bedrooms, Browns offers relaxed and comfortable accommodation where guests are pampered with attentive service.

Alistair Sawdays, writer of Beautiful places to stay, wrote in his 2007 best selling book; "Still the BEST place to stay in Tavistock". This is further backed up by Browns Hotel winning the award Town House Hotel of the Year 2006 c/o The Good Hotel Guide.

The courtyard is an ideal setting for relaxing in the sun, with a meal from our superb lunch menu, or while away the hours in our airy conservatory near the fresh water well around which the original coaching inn was built.

This Roman well was uncovered during the major refurbishment of Browns Hotel in 2000AD. It was a holy well for the Benedictine Abbey of Tavistock which was founded by Ordgar, Earl of Devon. Mention is made of the well when owned by John Ffytz in 1597.

Filtered spring water from the well is served both still and carbonated at Browns. Over a thousand years ago travellers and monks from the nearby abbey enjoyed refreshment from this well and today its water is provided in bottles. Today Browns Hotel spring water is bottled and sold all over the Great Britian.