The White Hart Hotel

The White Hart Hotel

Location Website:	http://www.whitehartdartmoor.com
Contact Details:	George Street Moretonhampstead TQ13 8NF

The White Hart Hotel dominates the town centre as it has done for the past three huundred years or more. It is not, strictly speaking, an ancient coaching inn, because the turnpike roads did not come to Moreton before the early years of the 19th century, but it has always been the principle inn at which important travellers dined and rested. It was used for balls and assemblies in Georgian times, and was the place where the last great Stannary Parliament met in 1794. The porticoed entrance used to extend much farther into the roadway, but modern traffic forced its abbreviation. It was once known as the old Posting Station and the statue is actuaaly of a white hind (not a hart.) The inn was where horses were changed on their journey from Exeter to Princetown. There were once twenty horses stabled at the White Hart and these conveyed passengers over the moor.