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Springfield Park, Bridestowe, Okehampton, West Devon, Devon
EX20 4ES West Devon District
Days out for all the family
Are there any fun places to visit? The following attractions are within 10 miles of EX20 4ES:
Monkey Sanctuary
Murrayton, Looe, PL131NZ
The Monkey Sanctuary Trust is a unique environmental charity dedicated to:- Promoting the welfare, conservation and survival of primates, particularly woolly monkeys. - Working to end the primate trade and abuse of primates in captivity.
Lydford Castle and Saxon Town
Lydford, EX204BH
Beautifully sited on the fringe of Dartmoor, Lydford boasts three defensive features. Near the centre is a 13th-century tower keep on a mound, later a prison notorious for harsh punishments - 'the most annoyous, contagious and detestable place within this realm.
Museum of Dartmoor Life
3 West Street, Okehampton, EX201HQ
Could you live without electricity?Could you cope without central heating?Where would you get food and clothes if there were no supermarkets or clothes shops? WOULD YOU SURVIVE?The people of Dartmoor did. Dartmoor is the last wilderness in southern England.
Okehampton Castle
Castle Lodge, Okehampton, EX201JB
The remains of the largest castle in Devon, in an outstandingly picturesque setting on a wooded spur above the rushing River Okement. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest as a motte and bailey castle with a stone keep, it was converted into a sumptuous residence in the 14th century by Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon, much of whose work survives.
Dingles Steam Village
, Lifton, PL160AT
The Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre is proud to present the National Fairground Collection. It is a facility unique in the UK, designed to capture the magic of a bygone age through exhibits, vintage engineering and stunning artwork displays.
Launceston Castle
Castle Lodge, Launceston, PL157DR
Launceston Castle is set on the high motte of a stronghold built soon after the Norman Conquest. It was famously used as a jail for George Fox during the reign of Charles II.
Launceston Steam Railway
St Thomas Road, Launceston, PL158DA
The Launceston Steam Railway links the historic Cornish town of Launceston with the hamlet of Newmills. Trains are hauled by steam locomotives built to a famous design by the Hunslet Engineering Company in the late 1800's.
Castle Drogo
Drewsteignton, EX66PB
The 'last castle to be built in England', set above the Teign Gorge with dramatic views over Dartmoor.Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and built between 1911 and 1931 for the self-made food retailing millionaire Julius Drewe, the castle is a masterpiece in Dartmoor granite that blends into the landscape to give the appearance of having been there for centuries.
Morwellham 1860
Morwellham, Gunnislake, Near Tavistock, PL198JL
On the banks of the beautiful river Tamar, amidst ancient wooded hills and acres of quiet organic meadows, this enchanting Victorian village is alive again. Once the centre of an extraordinary copper mining boom, the local characters can now reveal the parts they played, when Morwellham was 'The Greatest Copper port in Queen Victoria's Empire'.
The Garden House
Buckland Monachorum, Yelverton, Nr Tavistock, PL207LQ
The Garden House is centred on an enchanting Walled Garden created by the plantsman Lionel Fortescue and his wife Katharine around the romantic ruins of a medieval vicarage. Lionels's successor Keith Wiley extended the garden into new areas such as the South African Garden, the Acer Glade, the Bulb Meadow and the Cretan Cottage Garden, creating vistas of stunning colour from Spring until Autumn in a pioneering naturalistic style.
Yelverton Paperweight Centre
4 Buckland Terrace, Leg o´Mutton Corner, Yelverton, PL206AD
This Centre, which is situated in the UK Dartmoor National Park, is home to 'The Broughton Collection'. This is an exhibition of hundreds of antique and modern glass paperweights, collected by Bernard Broughton over many years.
Buckland Abbey
Buckland Abbey, PL206EY
Buckland Abbey is a 700-year-old building with fine 16th-century great hall, associated with Elizabethan seafarers Drake and Grenville.Tucked away in its own secluded valley above the River Tavy, Buckland was originally a small but influential Cistercian monastery.
Tamar Otter Sanctuary
North Petherwin, Launceston, PL158GW
The Otter Trust is the world's leading Otter conservation organisation, the only place in the West Country breeding the British Otter regularly and reintroducing young otters into the wild to save the otter from extinction. Orphaned otter cubs rehabilitation centreDormouse conservation project to help conserve this attractive little animalVisitor CentrePicnic AreasIllustrated Nature TrailRefreshmentsGift ShopFree Car ParkTwo lakes with many Waterfowl.
Becky Falls
Becky Falls, Manaton, Nr Bovey Tracey, TQ139UG
High on Dartmoor Becky Falls Woodland Park, with its huge oak canopy, rugged landscape, massive granite boulders and waterfalls, provides some of the most scenic and enjoyable walks in the south west as well as loads of fun for all the family throughout the seasons. Open from 10am every day, March to October, school holidays and winter weekends (weather permitting).
RHS Garden Rosemoor
Great Torrington, EX388PH
Set deep in the lovely North Devon countryside, RHS Garden Rosemoor has now come of age as a garden of national importance. Lady Anne Berry gifted Rosemoor to the RHS 11 years ago, since when the original eight acres have been greatly developed.
Buckfast Abbey
Buckfastleigh, TQ110EE
Buckfast Abbey is home to a Roman Catholic community of Benedictine monks.The Abbey Church is at the centre of the monastic life of the Benedictine monks at Buckfast, since it is there that the Monastic Community gathers to pray and celebrate the sacraments.
House of Marbles
Old Pottery, Pottery Road, Bovey Tracey, TQ139DS
At House of Marbles and Teign Valley Glass we have been manufacturing our unusual range of games, toys, marbles and glassware for many years. Visitors are most welcome to wander around the old pottery buildings with their listed kilns, enjoy our museums of glass, games marbles and Bovey Tracey Pottery, watch glass blowing when work is in progress, see our spectacular marble runs, browse in the factory seconds and gift shops and take refreshment in our coffee shop and licensed restaurant.
Buckfast Butterfly Farm
Buckfastleigh, TQ110DZ
'The Butterfly Farm and Otter Sanctuary is situated just outside the southern border of Dartmoor National Park between Exeter and Plymouth and is easily reached just off the A38 Devon Expressway at the Dart Bridge junction. There are large brown tourist signs guiding visitors from the junction to our car park.
Pennywell Farm
Buckfastleigh, TQ110LT
Come and experience the Pennywell magic at our multi-award winning Farm Activity Park. .
Saltram House
Saltram House, Plympton, PL71UH
Magnificent Georgian mansion with Adam interiors, gardens and park. Home to the Parker family for generations, Saltram is a remarkable survival of a George II mansion (modelled around a Tudor core).
Antony House
Torpoint, PL112QA
Superb early 18th-century mansion set in parkland and fine gardens. The house, containing collections of paintings, furniture and textiles, and home of the Carew family for almost 600 years, is faced in silvery-grey Pentewan stone, flanked by colonnaded wings of mellow brick.
Merchants House Museum
33 St Andrews Street, PL12AX
Step back into an Elizabethan Merchant's house and get a taste of what Plymouth life was like in the past - from beggars to the Blitz. Browse potions and lotions in our reconstructed chemist shop.
National Marine Aquarium
Rope Walk, Coxside, PL40LF
The National Marine Aquarium was the first aquarium in the United Kingdom to be set up solely for the purpose of education, conservation and research. It remains Britain's foremost aquarium and in the four years it has been open it has attracted over one and half million visitors through its door and thousands of enquiries by letter, telephone, fax and email.
Plymouth Royal Citadel
Royal Citadel Hoe, PL12PD
A dramatic 17th-century fortress built to defend the coastline from the Dutch and still in use by the military today. It has been regularly strengthened over the years, particularly during the 1750's when it was equipped with 113 guns, and is still in use today by the military.
Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park
Cremyll, Torpoint, PL101HZ
Mount Edgcumbe House is the former home of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe. Set in Grade I Cornish Gardens within 865 acres Country Park on the Rame Peninsula, SE Cornwall.
Bradley Manor
Newton Abbot, TQ126BN
Small medieval manor house set in woodland and meadowsOne of the finest and most complete medieval manor houses in Devon Fantastic woodland and riverside setting on the outskirts of Newton Abbot Impressive collection of pre-Raphaelite pictures and Arts & Crafts furniture Finely crafted plaster work and joinery Watch the manor's history unfold before you on a tour of the house Given to the National Trust in 1938 by Mrs A. H.
Milky Way Adventure Park
Near Clovelly, Bideford, EX395RY
The Milky Way Adventure Park, North Devon was founded by the Stanbury Family in 1984. Its truly unique mix of sheer fun,education and live shows make it a must for your holiday.
Prickly Ball Hedgehog Hospital
Denbury Road, Newton Abbot, TQ126BZ
Enjoy the hedgehog experience with hands-on talks where you can learn about the lifecycle and diet of a hedgehog, and also how to make your garden more hedgehog friendly. The Hedgehog Hospital has two main functions - to treat and rehabilitate injured or sich animals, and wherever possible release into the wild.
Cobbaton Combat Collection
Cobbaton, EX379RZ
This military museum covers mostly World War Two, but with exhibits from the Boer War up to the Gulf War. This collection ranges from military surplus tanks, guns, helmets, artillery, grenades, and bombs, to Home Front ration books, gas masks, ARP and Home Guard uniforms, and blackout lamps.
Tuckers Maltings
Teign Road, Newton Abbot, TQ124AA
Tucker's Maltings in Newton Abbot is one of only a handful of malthouses still producing malt in the traditional way and the only one in England that is open to the public for regular guided tours.Our Speciality Bottled Beer Shop at the Maltings sells a wide range of beers, many of which are brewed using our malt.
