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The Church House is a two-storey granite building dating from c.1540 and still in use today. Please check with the shop staff at the National Trust Shop adjacent to the Church House to see if it is possible to visit the Church House. Read more…
Saltram House is a Georgian house with interiors by Robert Adam has fine collections of furniture, art and china. The 202 hectares (50 acres) of gardens, follies and landscape parkland stretch down to the River Plym. Saltram House started in the film Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. Read more…
Grimspound is one of the many prehistoric settlements you can find on Dartmoor. Dating from the late Bronze Age (about 1450–700 BC) you have the remains of 24 stone roundhouses a massive boundary wall about 150 metres in diameter. There are great views of the site from Hookney Tor and the high ground on Hameldown. Read more…
Kirkham House is a late medieval stone house, that was split into three cottages. Furnished with modern furniture, illustrating traditional craftsmanship and the original use of the rooms. Read more…
Knightshayes Court is a Gothic Revival country house with richly decorated interiors and a large garden that includes lily pools, floral borders, amusing topiary and walled kitchen garden. Read more…
The Mayflower Steps are from which the Pilgrim Fathers are believed to have finally left England aboard the Mayflower on 6 September 1620. The traditional site of their disembarkation in North America is Plymouth Rock. Read more…
Berry Pomeroy Castle, begun in c. 1560 and ambitiously enlarged from c. 1600, this mansion was intended to become the most spectacular house in Devon. Never completed, and abandoned by 1700, it became the focus of blood-curdling ghost stories, recounted in the audio tour. Woodland walks provide fine views of the ruins. Read more…
Arlington Court is a Regency house built in 1823 with an extensive estate. The stables at Arlington Court host the National Trust’s Carriage Collection which is an impressive collection of horse-drawn vehicles. Read more…
Dartmouth Castle built in the 15th Century to guard the narrow entrance to the Dart Estuary. Access by either foot or ferry. Read more…
The 700-year-old Buckland Abbey was later home of Elizabethan seafarers Drake and Grenville. The Abbey is part museum, part house and gardens within the beautiful Tavy Valley estate. Read more…
The most southerly point in Devon, a stunning stretch of the South West Coast Path with dramatic cliffs, open farmland and secluded sandy coves. Excellent for spotting migratory birds and rare butterflies. Iron Age promontory fort at Bolt Tail and small sandy coves between Salcombe & Prawle. Read more…
Clovelly has a single steep cobbled street that runs down past 16th Century fisherman’s cottages to the harbour. The road is half a mile (0.8km) long but drops some 400ft (122m). Once at the bottom Clovelly harbour is a 13th Century stone quay. Clovelly has not been spoilt by the holiday trade over the years as it is owned by Read more…
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