Paignton Zoo is home to thousands of amazing animals and plants. Visit the desert, cross the savannah, explore the forest and trek through the tropics. Use your senses to discover the wild world: look around, listen out – you’ll even need your sense of smell! It’s a great day out for everyone. Paignton Zoo is...
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Trago Mills
Trago Mills is approx 3 miles from Newton Abbot on the Bovey Tracey road from Newton Abbot (A382). Trago offers discount shopping and a leisure park where the children will find among other activities Supakarts, bumper boats, trampolines and a bouncy castle. There is a steam railway which runs for 2 and half miles and...
China Blue Ceramic Studio
Treat yourself to a creative experience at China Blue’s ceramic studio – the largest of its kind in the South West! China Blue is the ALL weather attraction the whole family will enjoy! Have fun designing your own ceramics from the huge collection of figures, mugs, plates & much, much, more. Choose your colours, brushes...
Dinosaur World
Torquay’s Dinosaur World is a brand new and exciting visitor attraction exploring the lives of the most amazing creatures to walk the earth and the worlds in which they lived. This is an experience you’ve never had before – we’ve hand-picked the very best life-size dinosaur recreations, scale models and extraordinary fossils from all over...
Dartmoor Otters & Buckfast Butterflies
The Buckfast Butterflies and Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary offers a great, enjoyable, otter and butterfly educational experience. Otter Sanctuary This sanctuary has been set up with both the intention to provide the otters with the best conditions to live in, but also in a way that visitors are able to see and enjoy the otters. You...
House of Marbles and Teign Valley Glass
HOUSE OF MARBLES Leave Newton Abbot and head for Bovey Tracey (A382) and Pottery Road is where you will find House of Marbles. Admission and parking is free, so there’s a great start! See the largest collection of marbles in the world and visit the biggest marble run in the UK. Watch glass being blown...
Babbacombe Model Village
Take time out from the hustle and bustle of every day life and feel on top of the world as you see it recreated in miniature. Thousands of miniature buildings, people and vehicles capture the essence of England’s past, present and future. It’s not just the humour, nor the animation – it has a life...
Living Coasts
Take a journey around the coasts of the world where amazing plants and animals live life on the edge. At Living Coasts, you’ll see birds and mammals in specially-designed naturalistic habitats. With outdoor and indoor exhibits, there’s plenty to see and do whatever the weather. Living Coasts is open every day (except Christmas Day) from...
Ashcombe Adventure Centre
ASHCOMBE ADVENTURE CENTRE is just off the A380 between Newton Abbot and Exeter. The Centre offers days of excitement and adventure for the family, companies taking staff team building or even for those looking for something different for that hen or stag party! Here you will find 12 miles of woodland tracks. There are 3...
The Devon Guild of Craftsmen
THE DEVON GUILD OF CRAFTSMEN The Devon Guild of Craftsmen is the largest contemporary crafts centre in the South West, exhibiting and selling fine hand-made craft items made by over 240 Members based in the region. The Guild supports its Members with sales and professional development schemes. Housed in a beautiful Grade II listed Riverside...