A Driving Tour of Devon, England—on Perilously Narrow Roads
The landscape near Dartmoor national park is crisscrossed with two-way roads wide enough just for one car. Touring it on four wheels turns one family’s driving vacation into a picturesque challenge
BY THE THIRD DAY of driving my family through the U.K. on a vacation this August, I felt at ease and in charge. I’d driven on the left side of the road years before, and after a few shaky moments remembered how it was all done. With the BBC’s website optimistically forecasting good weather, I was looking forward to three days in Devon, at the border of the English national park of Dartmoor.
But—as in “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” which is partly set on the brooding, beflowered moor—a challenging and even perilous adventure...