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Castle fit for Bertie Wooster; Clara Penn feels as if she's in a P.G.Wodehouse novel at Peter de Savary's [pounds sterling]30m Dartmoor estate.

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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20040425
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Byline: CLARA PENN

DINNER was over and darkness had fallen on Bovey Castle's radiant second day of opening.

Stepping into the balmy evening from the grand manor house - 'castle' being a rather bold new logo - a regular 'swish-thwock!' could be heard, interspersed with shrieks of laughter and howls of disappointment.

Golf balls went shooting like sudden fireflies off the terrace, hopelessly misdirected at the floodlit third pin in the middle of the lake below. It may call itself the UK's most exclusive golf and sporting retreat but Devon's new five-star hotel and club ...

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