The most distinctive is the Pavilion, a stand-alone thatched cottage with two bedrooms near the putting green (and one of the three where Gidleigh allows your dog to bunk in).

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At the end of the lane, a right turn will bring you to the low entrance of a place where you can learn to make green tea, and to the Edo-period cottage built by a poet in memory of the haiku master Basho, who cherished the area because his teacher once lived here.

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The nursery, meanwhile, had a cottage feel, with bubble-gum-pink curtains and sage-green-and-white wallpaper.

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