Places to explore near Okehampton

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

0.7 km S

Dartmoor's and southern England's highest summit.

6 km S

Thatched 13th-century inn with rooms on the north-western edge of Dartmoor.

8.6 km SW

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

11.6 km SE

A deep, wooded river gorge on the western edge of Dartmoor, with a churning whirlpool at one end and a tall waterfall at the other

12.8 km SW

The deepest gorge in the South West, its path threading past the White Lady waterfall and the Devil's Cauldron whirlpool.

13.2 km SW

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

13.7 km SE

Dining pub in the Dartmoor stannary village of Chagford.

13.7 km SE

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

13.7 km SE · Devon

Lutyens's granite castle above Teign Gorge.

14.9 km E

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

15.5 km E

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

16.5 km E

Stunted, moss-draped ancient oak woodland.

16.8 km S

A medieval slab bridge of huge granite blocks spanning the East Dart in the heart of the moor.

17.4 km S

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

17.9 km SE

Late Bronze Age settlement in a Dartmoor fold between Hookney and Hameldown tors, where a thick stone wall rings the footings of 24 round houses.

18.3 km SE

One of England's smallest churches, perched alone on a volcanic plug with vast views over west Dartmoor.

18.8 km SW

Bronze Age hut circles beside double stone rows, a small stone circle and a tall standing stone on the open moor west of Princetown.

20.9 km S

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

21.4 km SE

A flooded granite quarry near Princetown with abandoned workers' cottages and a still blue pool for wild swimming.

21.8 km S

Green-hearted Dartmoor village under bare tors, its granite church tower earning it the name Cathedral of the Moor.

22.5 km SE · Devon

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

22.8 km SE

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

22.8 km SE

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

23 km SE

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

23.2 km SW

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

23.2 km SE · Devon

A popular beauty spot where the East and West Dart rivers meet beside a ruined clapper bridge on open moor.

23.6 km SE

The Royal Horticultural Society's North Devon garden, 65 acres of formal rooms, foliage and woodland in the Torridge valley.

24.1 km NW

A circuit of Dartmoor's towns and villages around the National Park's edge, with an optional link straight over the high moor.

0.2 km SE · Devon

A figure-of-eight on Barnstaple through Tarka the Otter's north Devon — part riverside rail path, part moor, part coast, one leg by train.

0.2 km E · Devon & Somerset

A National Trust place in Devon.

5.5 km E

A National Trust place in Devon.

10.8 km N

Devon's south-to-north crossing, over Dartmoor and Exmoor from Ivybridge to the sea at Lynmouth.

11.7 km SE · Devon & Somerset

Coaching inn at Lydford on the moor's western flank, known for careful cooking and rooms.

11.8 km SW

Fine granite moor church at the heart of the Dartmoor stannary town, with a wide churchyard outlook.

13.8 km SE