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The Southwest has been providing inspiration to the country’s leading literary lights for centuries. Spend a week touring the locations that gave birth to the masterpieces.

Day 1: Start in Bath with a tour of the various sites associated with Jane Austen during her five-year stay in the city, including the Pump Room and grand Georgian terraces. The Jane Austen Centre organizes themed walks.

Day 2: Follow in the footsteps of Coleridge and Wordsworth with a wander in the Quantocks and visit Coleridge’s former home at Nether Stowey. Spend a (hopefully uninterrupted) evening in Porlock following a trip aboard the West Somerset Steam Railway.

Day 3: Take a 'Lorna Doone Country Walk' through Exmoor in the footsteps of R.D. Blackmore’s famous heroine. Maps are available from all the local tourist offices.

Day 4: Explore the North Devon Coast, so beloved of Charles Kingsley and described in loving detail in Westward Ho! (although avoid the village of the same name), set in the reign of Elizabeth I.

Day 5: Hop aboard the 'Tarka Line' at Barnstaple for an idyllic train ride to Exeter through the countryside of Henry Williamson’s Tarka the Otter.

Day 6: Head southwest into the wilds of Dartmoor, to Foxtor Mire, the real-life inspiration for the deadly 'great Grimpen mire' featured in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Day 7: Make your way down the peninsula’s south coast to Fowey and the Daphne Du Maurier Visitor Centre. The author lived nearby and set many of her novels, including Rebecca and Jamaica Inn, in the region.