Places to explore near Exeter

Two Norman towers outside and, within, the longest unbroken medieval stone vault in the world, about 96 m of carved ribs.

0.2 km W

Old Exe estuary port of Dutch-gabled merchant houses, antique shops and quayside pubs looking over the tidal mudflats.

6 km SE · Devon

Medieval fortified manor with deer park.

9.2 km SE

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

10.1 km SW

Red Triassic cliffs, pebble heaths and the western start of the Jurassic Coast, with easy coast-path walking

11.2 km SE

Michael Caines' Georgian country-house hotel overlooking the Exe estuary and its own vineyard.

11.7 km SE

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

11.9 km SE · spans 4 counties

England's highest man-made waterfall, dropping 70 metres through Teign Valley woodland from a Victorian leat.

13.6 km SW

Thatched 16th-century Devon village inn with rooms, good-value country cooking.

13.7 km NE

A Tudor manor whose courtyard carries statues of Henry VIII and his children.

17.1 km E

Long thatched village on the River Otter between Sidmouth and Budleigh, with a working watermill and riverside walks.

17.4 km SE · Devon

East Devon town on the Otter with a great collegiate church modelled on Exeter Cathedral, birthplace of Coleridge.

17.8 km E · Devon

Riverside inn beside a packhorse bridge deep in the Teign Gorge below Drewsteignton, a walkers' favourite.

18.1 km W

Dartmoor village of thatch, cob and moorstone cottages in the wooded Wrey Valley, often called the prettiest on the moor.

18.1 km SW · Devon

Ale served from a back tap room off the passage of a thatched Dartmoor-edge inn, long kept by the legendary Mabel Mudge.

18.7 km W

Red sandstone sea stacks on Jurassic Coast.

18.8 km E

Lutyens's granite castle above Teign Gorge.

19.8 km W

A natural cascade tumbling over mossy boulders through ancient oak woodland in the Bovey Valley on Dartmoor.

20.4 km SW

Grand hotel dining in a Dartmoor estate outside the village of North Bovey.

20.7 km SW

Regency resort town of elegant esplanade villas beneath red Jurassic cliffs, framed by celebrated public gardens.

20.8 km E · Devon

Estate village of cream-washed thatched cottages and a fine church, among the prettiest in the Blackdown Hills.

20.9 km NE · Devon

Georgian seaside village of narrow streets and pastel houses at the mouth of the Teign, across the water from Teignmouth.

21.2 km S · Devon

Dartmoor's most famous granite tor, an easy climb to sweeping views over the moor and the South Devon coast.

21.5 km SW

A weathered granite stack on Hayne Down shaped like a man's profile, the subject of a Dartmoor witch legend.

21.8 km SW

Kitchen-garden dining at the Elizabethan PIG country-house hotel outside the thatched village of Gittisham.

21.9 km E

A river-fed pool dug by Chagford villagers in 1933 beside the Teign on the edge of Dartmoor, still run by volunteers.

22 km W

Stone footings of a 13th-century Dartmoor hamlet of longhouses and barns below Hound Tor, probably deserted in the 14th century.

22.3 km SW

A rugged crown of granite stacks beside the ruins of a deserted medieval village on eastern Dartmoor.

22.3 km SW

Dining pub in the Dartmoor stannary village of Chagford.

22.7 km W

Ancient stannary town on Dartmoor's edge, full of independent shops, galleries and cafes around a granite market square.

22.7 km W · Devon

A mock-Tudor country-house hotel hidden in a wooded Dartmoor valley near Chagford.

24.9 km W

Laid out in 1835, thought England's first council-funded cemetery, with sealed Egyptian-style catacombs.

0.7 km W

The first canal of modern Britain, cut in the 1560s to bring ships past the weirs to Exeter's quay.

0.8 km S · Devon

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

3.5 km SE · spans 24 counties

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon.

3.5 km SE

A National Trust place in Devon.

10.5 km SE