The Dartmouth Steam Railway is the southern half of the old Great Western branch line, running from Paignton along the coast to…
Paignton Zoo is the south-west’s largest, with 80 acres of mixed habitat and around 2,000 animals. It’s a proper full-day attraction –…
Torbay is unusual on the south coast for shallow, gently-shelving beaches and a sheltered bay that knocks the swell off the prevailing…
Most “show caves” are interesting once. Kents Cavern is interesting every time, because it’s genuinely one of the most archaeologically significant cave…
A summer in the bay is a long one. From late May to early October the days stretch, the water warms, and…
Cockington is a chocolate-box Devon village – thatched roofs, lanes too narrow for cars, a working forge, a 14th-century church – that…
