Attractions in Devon

Babbacombe Cliff Railway

Funicular linking Babbacombe Downs with Oddicombe Beach; it closes in winter for maintenance.

• Torquay, Paignton & Brixham, Devon

Babbacombe Model Village

Miniature village in gardens at Babbacombe, opened in 1963.

• Torquay, Paignton & Brixham, Devon

Bayard's Cove Fort

• Dartmouth, Totnes & the Dart, Devon

Becky Falls

Waterfall of about 20 metres in a woodland park with trails and a small animal area.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Berry Head

Headland at the southern end of Tor Bay, a national and local nature reserve east of Brixham.

• Torquay, Paignton & Brixham, Devon

Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

Museum of cinema history on the university's Streatham Campus, holding over 80,000 objects; open to the public since 1997.

• Exeter, Devon

Bowerman's Nose

• Dartmoor, Devon

Britannia Royal Naval College

The Royal Navy's officer training college, on a hill above Dartmouth; the current buildings were completed in 1905.

• Dartmouth, Totnes & the Dart, Devon

Brixham Battery

Shore gardens with a 1940 emergency gun battery, on a site first armed in 1586.

• Torquay, Paignton & Brixham, Devon

Brixham Heritage Museum

Local museum of the fishing town of Brixham.

• Torquay, Paignton & Brixham, Devon

Buckfast Abbey

Active Benedictine monastery refounded in 1882; the abbey church was built between 1907 and 1938.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Burrator Reservoir

Reservoir on the southern side of the moor, completed in 1898 to supply Plymouth with water.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Castle Drogo

Granite castle by Edwin Lutyens built between 1911 and 1930, described as the last castle built in England.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Charles Church

Now-derelict church that was once the second-oldest parish church in Plymouth.

• Plymouth, Devon

Coleton Fishacre

Arts and Crafts house with a 24-acre garden near Kingswear, owned by the National Trust since 1982.

• Dartmouth, Totnes & the Dart, Devon

Cricklepit Mill

Restored mill on the quay that is a Devon Wildlife Trust visitor centre and the trust's headquarters.

• Exeter, Devon

Dartington Hall

Estate of about 800 acres near Totnes whose late 14th-century courtyard buildings are Grade I listed.

• Dartmouth, Totnes & the Dart, Devon

Dartmoor Prison Museum

Museum of the history of Dartmoor Prison in Princetown.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Dartmouth Castle

Artillery fort guarding the mouth of the Dart, begun in the 1380s and later given an early purpose-built gun tower.

• Dartmouth, Totnes & the Dart, Devon

Dartmouth Museum

Port history museum in a merchant's house on the Butterwalk where Charles II held court in 1671.

• Dartmouth, Totnes & the Dart, Devon

Dartmouth Steam Railway

Heritage line of 6.7 miles between Paignton and Kingswear on the former Great Western branch.

• Dartmouth, Totnes & the Dart, Devon

Dovery Manor Museum

Local museum in a late 15th-century manor house in Porlock, with displays on Porlock Hill and the 1899 lifeboat launch.

• Exmoor & Lynmouth, Devon

Drake's Island

• Plymouth, Devon

Dunkery Beacon

Highest point on Exmoor and in Somerset at 519 metres, with Bronze Age cairns; owned by the National Trust.

• Exmoor & Lynmouth, Devon

Dunster Castle

Castle on a steep hill called the Tor, fortified since Anglo-Saxon times and held by the Luttrell family for centuries.

• Exmoor & Lynmouth, Devon

Elizabethan House

Late 16th-century house on New Street run by The Box; closed in winter, reopening in spring.

• Plymouth, Devon

Exeter Cathedral

Gothic cathedral completed by about 1400, with an astronomical clock and the longest unbroken medieval stone vault in the world.

• Exeter, Devon

Exeter city walls

Roman and medieval walls whose 2.35 km circuit is about 72 per cent visible; a scheduled monument.

• Exeter, Devon

Exeter Custom House

Late 17th-century custom house on the quay, the first in England built for the purpose; used by HM Customs until 1989.

• Exeter, Devon

Exeter Guildhall

Seat of the city's government for at least 600 years; largely medieval, with a frontage added in the 1590s.

• Exeter, Devon

Exeter Quay

Riverside quarter by the Exe and the Exeter Ship Canal, now used for leisure, with the Butts Ferry across the river.

• Exeter, Devon

Exeter's Underground Passages

• Exeter, Devon

Exmoor Zoo

Conservation zoo near Bratton Fleming specialising in smaller animals, developed from Exmoor Bird Gardens.

• Exmoor & Lynmouth, Devon

Finch Foundry

Water-powered forge at Sticklepath that made edge tools until 1960; National Trust, with working hammers.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Fingle Bridge

Seventeenth-century three-arched packhorse bridge over the River Teign near Drewsteignton.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Foreland Point

The most northerly point of the Devon and Exmoor coast, owned by the National Trust, with a Trinity House lighthouse.

• Exmoor & Lynmouth, Devon

Golden Hind

Full-size replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship moored in Brixham harbour; closed in winter until February half term.

• Torquay, Paignton & Brixham, Devon

Great Hangman

The highest sea cliff in England, 318 metres, and the highest point of the South West Coast Path.

• Exmoor & Lynmouth, Devon

Greenway

Estate on the River Dart that was Agatha Christie's home, now owned by the National Trust.

• Dartmouth, Totnes & the Dart, Devon

Grimspound

Bronze Age settlement of 24 hut circles inside a low stone wall; a scheduled monument since 1928.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Haytor

Granite tor on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, also known as Haytor Rocks.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Haytor Granite Tramway

Tramway of 1820 with rails cut from granite, built to carry stone from the Haytor quarries to the Stover Canal.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Heddon's Mouth

• Exmoor & Lynmouth, Devon

Hound Tor

Weathered granite tor with the ruins of a medieval village nearby, cared for by the national park for English Heritage.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Kents Cavern

Cave system in Devonian limestone known for its archaeology; a scheduled monument and Site of Special Scientific Interest.

• Torquay, Paignton & Brixham, Devon

Kingswear Castle

Artillery fort of 1491 to 1502 opposite Dartmouth Castle, now let as a holiday home by the Landmark Trust.

• Dartmouth, Totnes & the Dart, Devon

Lydford Castle

Stone tower of 1195, rebuilt in the 13th century and used as a prison and court for the Forest of Dartmoor.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Lydford Gorge

The deepest gorge in South West England, cut by the River Lyd, with a 30-metre waterfall; National Trust, closed in winter.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Lyn and Exmoor Museum

Small museum in Lynton's oldest surviving cottage, covering local life and the 1952 Lynmouth flood.

• Exmoor & Lynmouth, Devon

Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway

• Exmoor & Lynmouth, Devon

Lynton Town Hall

Grade II* listed town hall on Lee Road with a community bookshop on the ground floor.

• Exmoor & Lynmouth, Devon

Mayflower Museum

Museum and tourist information centre on the Barbican, opposite the Mayflower Steps.

• Plymouth, Devon

Mayflower Steps

Memorial near the spot from which the Pilgrim Fathers are believed to have sailed on the Mayflower in 1620.

• Plymouth, Devon

Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement

Bronze Age stone rows and other megalithic monuments south of the road at Merrivale, managed for English Heritage.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Minster Church of St Andrew

Fifteenth-century parish church, the largest in historic Devon, rebuilt after Blitz damage and made a minster in 2009.

• Plymouth, Devon

Museum of Dartmoor Life

Social history museum of Dartmoor in an early 19th-century mill with a waterwheel, opened in 1981.

• Dartmoor, Devon

National Marine Aquarium

The UK's largest aquarium, opened in 1998 on Sutton Harbour and run by the Ocean Conservation Trust.

• Plymouth, Devon

Northernhay Gardens

Laid out in 1612 as a pleasure walk, England's oldest public open space includes Roman and Saxon city wall.

• Exeter, Devon

Okehampton Castle

Norman motte-and-bailey castle built between 1068 and 1086, later turned into a hunting lodge by the Courtenays.

• Dartmoor, Devon

Oldway Mansion

House and gardens built for Isaac Singer and rebuilt by his son Paris Singer in the style of Versailles.

• Torquay, Paignton & Brixham, Devon