Places to explore near Plymouth StationPlymouth

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

1.3 km SW · spans 4 counties

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

1.6 km S

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

2.8 km SE

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

2.9 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

4.7 km W

Conical headland topped by a chapel.

5.7 km S

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

6.4 km SW · Cornwall

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

8.5 km N

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

0.5 km N

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

1.3 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.

1.5 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.

1.6 km S

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon.

5.7 km S

A National Trust place in Devon.

6 km NE