Wild pub walks

Tinners Arms Pub Sign and Village Church at Zennor near St Ives Photograph: Alamy

2.20pm BST

This walk has it all: geological wonders, exposed moorland, expansive scenery, an occasional hint of danger and some brilliant pubs.

Daniel Neilson

Updated at 12.28pm BST

2.18pm BST

The forest is a great place in which to lose the kids, enjoy the emerald light in late spring, or hunt for edible fungi in the autumn. The Cuckmere Inn is about half a mile west of the car park, serving Yorkshire ham and free range eggs, or sea bass with lobster and samphire sauce.

Dave Goulson

Updated at 12.28pm BST

2.16pm BST

There are kingfishers here; buzzards and dippers too. Once I watched for 10 minutes as an otter threaded its way between bank, tree root and water, fishing for trout. Expect some mysterious, melancholic human traces, too – weirs and old mills reduced to rubble, strange caves ...

Rob Cowen

Updated at 12.29pm BST

2.10pm BST

Scramble slowly around the tors for half an hour to enjoy views back over Okehampton, before heading down past the Nine Stones Circle to arrive at The Tors Inn, a quiet and cosy little pub in Belstone that does a range of pies (stilton and leek is delish!), pasties with chips, ploughman’s lunches, baguettes and a full roast on Sundays.

Chris Moss

Updated at 12.30pm BST