ATTRACTIONS IN PL12 6EW
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8.3milesMonkey 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.
1.8milesAntony 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.
4.7milesMount 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.
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5.3milesMerchants 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.
5.5milesPlymouth 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.
5.7milesNational 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.
6.9milesBuckland 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.
7milesMorwellham 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'.
7.2milesSaltram 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).
7.7milesThe 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.
8.7milesYelverton 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.
14.3milesLanreath Farm and Folk Museum
Churchtown, Lanreath, PL132NX
This is a 'hands on' countryside museum, exhibiting a wide rang of agricultural and household items of a bygone age. There are lambs rabbits and chickens to be fed, and a picnic and recreation area for children.
16.6milesLaunceston 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.
16.9milesLaunceston 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.
17.1milesLydford 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.
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17.4milesDingles 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.
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