DESTINATION DEVON

Devon, along with Cornwall, is home to part of England's only natural UNESCO World Heritage Site - the Jurassic Coast. This geology gives rise to the landscapes of Dartmoor and Exmoor, which are both National Parks. Devon has seaside resorts and historic towns and cities, and a mild climate, accounting for the large tourist sector of its economy.

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DISCOVER DEVON: Beer, Braunton Burrows, Brixham, Dartmoor, Dawlish, Exeter, Ilfracombe, Jurassic Coast, Lynmouth, Paignton, Plymouth, Torquay, Westward Ho!, Woodbury Common,

DISCOVER BEER The village of Beer is in south-east Devon, England, on Lyme Bay. It is a pretty coastal village that grew up around a smugglers' cove and caves which were once used to store contraband goods. These are now part of the attraction of the village. Many of the buildings are faced with flint, a hard glassy stone found in the local chalk rock ...

BRAUNTON BURROWS Braunton Burrows is a sand dune system on the North Devon coast. Braunton Burrows is a prime British sand dune site, the largest sand dune system (psammosere) in England. It is particularly important ecologically because it includes the complete successional range of dune plant communities, with over 400 vascular plant species ...

DISCOVER BRIXHAM Brixham is a hillly town, and built around the harbour which remains in use as a dock for fishing trawlers. It has a focal tourist attraction in the replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship the Golden Hind that is permanently moored there. In summer the Cowtown carnival is held, a reminder of when Brixham was two separate communities with only a marshy lane to connect them ...

DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK Dartmoor is a National Park in the centre of the English county of Devon. It covers 368 square miles (953 kmē). The landscape is both dramatic, and bleak. The rolling moorland is capped with hundreds of exposed granite hilltops (known as tors), and provides rich and diverse habitats for Dartmoor wildlife ...

DISCOVER DAWLISH Dawlish is located at the outlet of a small river, Dawlish Water (also called The Brook), between Permian red sandstone cliffs, and is fronted by a sandy beach with the South Devon Railway sea wall and the Riviera Line railway above. Behind this is a central public park, The Lawn, through which Dawlish Water flows ...

DISCOVER EXETER Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Britain. Its Exeter Cathedral, founded in the early 12th century, became Anglican at the time of the 16th century Reformation. The city has good transport links, connecting the city both nationally and internationally. Although a popular tourist destination, the city is not dominated by tourism ...

DISCOVER ILFRACOMBE Ilfracombe is a seaside resort on the north coast of Devon, England with a small harbour, surrounded by cliffs. The town stretches along the coast from The Coastguard Cottages in Hele Bay toward the East and 6km along The Torrs to Lee Bay toward the West. The resort is hilly and the highest point ...

JURASSIC COAST The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. The site stretches from Orcombe Point near Exmouth in East Devon to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage in East Dorset, a distance of 153 kilometres. Chartered in 2001, the Jurassic coast was the second wholly-natural World Heritage Site to be designated in the UK ...

DISCOVER LYNMOUTH Lynmouth was described by Thomas Gainsborough, who honeymooned there with his bride Margaret Burr, as 'the most delightful place for a landscape painter this country can boast'. A lifeboat station was established in Lynmouth on 20 January 1869, five months after the nearby wreck of the sailing vessel Home ...

DISCOVER PAIGNTON Paignton's economy relies heavily on tourism and the town is marketed as an ideal location for family holidays. During the summer, the long red sandy beach is packed with tourists eating ice cream and fish and chips. Paignton beach and the nearby Preston Sands are used for water sports such as wind and kite surfing ...

DISCOVER PLYMOUTH Plymouth's history goes back to the Bronze Age, when its first settlement grew at Mount Batten. This settlement continued to grow as a trading post for the Roman Empire, until the more prosperous village of Sutton, the current Plymouth, surpassed it. In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers left Plymouth for the New World and established Plymouth Colony ...

DISCOVER TORQUAY Torquay is a town in the county of Devon which has extended along the coast of Torbay to the extent that it is now inextricably intermingled with the neighbouring town of Paignton. In the 19th century it became a fashionable seaside resort, renowned for its healthy climate it gained a nickname as the English Riviera ...

WESTWARD HO! Westward Ho! is a seaside village near Bideford in Devon, England. The A39 road provides access from the towns of Barnstaple, Bideford and Bude. Westward Ho! is known for its surfing seas and the long expanse of clean sand backed by a pebble ridge and grasslands which extends for about three miles ...

WOODBURY COMMON Woodbury Common in East Devon is an area of common land that is predominantly heathland adjacent to the village of Woodbury, Devon. Within the common is Woodbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort situated on a viewpoint overlooking westwards the villages of Woodbury and Woodbury Salterton and across the Exe estuary to the Haldon Hills ...

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