Places to explore near Dockyard (Plymouth) StationPlymouth

630 miles around England's toe — the longest and most demanding of the National Trails.

1.9 km SE · spans 4 counties

The best of Cornwall's coast and moor, gathered into a dozen protected stretches around the county

2.4 km S

A steep wooded river valley on the Devon–Cornwall border, deep in old copper-and-arsenic mining history

2.4 km W

Semicircular Art Deco seawater lido of 1935 on the rocks below Plymouth Hoe, looking out over Plymouth Sound.

3.2 km SE

Red cliffs, tucked-away coves and drowned river valleys, with the coast path linking one beach to the next

4.7 km SE

Twin smuggling villages on the Rame Peninsula, a huddle of colour-washed cottages looking across Plymouth Sound.

5.7 km S · Cornwall

Conical headland topped by a chapel.

5.8 km S

Georgian mansion with Robert Adam interiors.

6.7 km E

Granite tors, wild ponies and England's largest expanse of open moorland in the south.

9.1 km NE

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

1.9 km SE · spans 24 counties

A Victorian garden cemetery of winding paths and memorials above Plymouth.

2.3 km E

Smeaton's 1759 Eddystone tower, its granite courses modelled on an oak trunk — dismantled and rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe once the reef undermined its foundations.

3.1 km SE

Charles II's vast 1660s citadel at the eastern end of Plymouth Hoe, still home to a serving army regiment behind its carved baroque gateway.

3.5 km SE

A coastal swimming spot rated good for water quality.

5.7 km S

A National Trust place in Cornwall.

6.8 km SW