Best of travel: Rampaging through Dartmoor in an Aston Martin
••• It’s the tail-end of dusk in Devon and silence is broken. Thundering down the twisting A382 from Exeter to Chagford, an ancient tin-mining town set on the upper reaches of southern England’s most rugged terrain, Dartmoor, the Aston Martin darts into a private road. Its V12 echoes through a dark tunnel of trees, skimming the edges of a stone bridge as it winds its way up to Gidleigh Park, the bark from its twin exhaust sending chills up the spine. It comes as a surprise after such wild countryside to find Gidleigh Park, a Tudor-style Edwardian manor surrounded by woodland and set...