Places to explore near Plymouth

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

1.2 km SW · spans 4 counties

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

1.4 km S

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

2.7 km SE

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

2.8 km SW

Georgian mansion with Robert Adam interiors.

4.4 km E

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

4.8 km W

Conical headland topped by a chapel.

5.5 km S

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

6.3 km SW · Cornwall

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

8.7 km N

Yealm estuary village of steep gardens and tidal creeks, twinned across the water with Noss Mayo by ferry and footpath.

9.9 km SE · Devon

Waterside village on a wooded creek of the Yealm estuary, its lanes dropping to moorings opposite Newton Ferrers.

10.5 km SE · Devon

Cistercian abbey turned Drake's Elizabethan home.

11.8 km N

A snug Dartmoor-edge village local, twice The Good Pub Guide's national Value Pub of the Year.

13.3 km N

Tudor manor above the Tamar valley.

14.8 km NW

Tidal island off Bigbury-on-Sea with an Art Deco hotel, the old Pilchard Inn and a huer's hut on the top

20.1 km SE

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

20.5 km NE

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 N

Golden estuary beach facing Burgh Island.

21.6 km SE

Organic farm-estate restaurant and stay near the South Hams village of Ugborough.

21.7 km E

Cornwall Wildlife Trust island a mile off Looe, with a self-guided trail, nesting seabirds, grey seals and a medieval chapel site

22 km W

Twin fishing town of East and West Looe joined by a bridge across the river, with a busy quay and sandy beach.

22.2 km W · Cornwall

Twin fishing hamlets of Inner and Outer Hope tucked into a sheltered South Hams bay of sandy coves and thatched cottages.

24.9 km SE · Devon

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

0.7 km N

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

1.2 km SW · spans 24 counties

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.

1.3 km S

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.

1.4 km S

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon.

5.5 km S

A National Trust place in Devon.

6.1 km NE