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Tourist Attractions
Transit Way, Plymouth
PL5 3TW City of Plymouth (B)
Days out for all the family
Are there any fun places to visit? The following attractions are within 10 miles of PL5 3TW:
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.
Eden Project
Bedelva, St Austell, PL242SG
The Eden Project, set in an amazing location in the heart of Cornwall, gives you a unique view of the world of plants and human society. The Eden Project is the largest greenhouse ever built, the size of 30 football pitches.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
Pennywell Farm
Buckfastleigh, TQ110LT
Come and experience the Pennywell magic at our multi-award winning Farm Activity Park. .
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.
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.
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.
Lanreath 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.
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.
Cookworthy Museum of Rural Life
108 Fore Street, Kingsbridge, TQ71AW
In the Old Grammar School you find an historic building, a collection and a local history archive. Each one of these would be worth visiting on its own, but to experience the three is exceptional.
Totnes Castle
Totnes (Top of hill), TQ95NU
A classic Norman motte and bailey castle, founded soon after the Conquest to overawe the Saxon town. A well-preserved later shell-keep crowns its steep mound, giving sweeping views across the town rooftops to the River Dart.
Totnes Elizabethan House Museum
70 Fore Street, Totnes., TQ95RU
Tudor house containing thesocial history of this historic town and the surrounding area. Features Tudor Kitchen, Victorian childhood, Victorian computer pioneer Charles Babbage and artefacts covering the last 5000 years.
Overbecks Museum and Garden
Sharpitor, Salcombe, TQ88LW
Elegant Edwardian house with diverse collections and luxuriant garden.The scientist Otto Overbeck lived here from 1928 to 1937 and the Museum containing his collections of curios and nautical artefacts has an intimate atmosphere.
Woodlands
Blackawton, Totnes, South Devon, TQ97DQ
Fun packed action for all the family with thrills a plenty for every age. Ride, slide, climb and swing around the safest and zippiest venture zones anywhere! Ride the legendary Cyclone Watercoasters Three radically unique heart stoppers that give three dangerously different rides.
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).
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.
St Catherines Castle
SW of Fowey along footpath off A3082, Fowey, PL231JH
St Catherine's Castle is a small 16th century castle fort built by Henry 8th to defend Fowey Harbour. Visitors can see gun ports, and two storeys of history.
Restormel Castle
Restormel, Lostwithiel, PL220BD
Surrounded by a deep moat and perched on a high mound, the huge circular keep of this castle, built at the turn of the 14th century, survives in good condition. Built as a symbol of wealth and status and once home to Edward, the Black Prince, it offers splendid views over the surrounding countryside.
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.
