All Places in Plymouth

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…

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…

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery was built in 1907-10 by Thornely and Rooke in Edwardian Baroque style. The Museum has collections of fine and decorative arts, natural history and human history. Read more…

Tinside Pool is a great example of an Art Deco lido. Built in 1935 it looks out over Plymouth Sound and is overlooked by Plymouth Hoe and Smeaton’s Tower. The lido is a semicircle of 55 metres diameter (180 feet). There is a central fountain and two smaller side fountains. The lido is floodlit at night. Sun loungers and deckchairs Read more…

Bovisand Bay beach is a sheltered sandy bay with cliffs on either side. Popular with locals and visiting families with a large expanse of sand for ball games at low tide. The beach is situated in a valley with a holiday park on the coast path not too far from Plymouth Surfing beach that does not get too busy but Read more…

Plymouth Hoe (East) beach has a small pebble section with rocks below Plymouth Hoe low limestone cliffs. The Hoe is a large south facing open public space including a statue of Sir Francis Drake with magnificent views of Plymouth Sound, Drake’s Island, and across the Hamoaze to Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon word Hoe, a Read more…

The most famous lighthouse in the British Isles is probably the Eddystone, built on a small and very dangerous rock 13 miles south west of Plymouth. There have been four separate lighthouses built here. The original tower, completed in 1698, was the first lighthouse to be built on a small rock in the open sea. The history is as follows: Read more…

Stoke Beach also known as Row Cove Beach is a small pebble and rocky beach backed by cliffs. A private beach with access along a public footpath through a caravan park and down some steps to the beach. You do have limited car parking spaces by the entrance to the park. Read more…

Plymouth Hoe (West) beach is not really a beach but just some rocks below Plymouth Hoe low limestone cliffs. The Hoe is a large south facing open public pace including a statue of Sir Francis Drake with magnificent views of Plymouth Sound, Drake’s Island, and across the Hamoaze to Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon word Read more…

Plymouth lifeboat station has been around since the early 1800s. The station operates offshore and inshore lifeboats. Station is not open to the public but does have a shop. Read more…

Mount Wise is a complex of three outdoor pools. We have a 25 main pool, a small paddling pool ideal for young children and a fun-packed activity pool including a whirlpool and bubble pool. Read more…