Dartmouth

An important port in the Middle Ages, Dartmouth is today a favorite haunt of yacht owners. Traces of its past include the old houses in Bayard's Cove near Lower Ferry, the 16th-century covered Butterwalk, and the two castles guarding the entrance to the River Dart. The Royal Naval College, built in 1905, dominates the town. A few miles south of Dartmouth on Start Bay there are a number of pretty beaches including Blackpool Sands, popular with families.

Dartmouth at a Glance

Elsewhere in The West Country

• Beer
• Bodmin
• Boscastle
• Bristol
• Chagford
• Clovelly
• Dartmoor National Park
• Dunster
• Exeter
• Exmoor National Park
• Falmouth
• Fowey
• Glastonbury
• Land's End
• Launceston
• Lizard Peninsula
• Lydford Gorge
• Lynton and Lynmouth

• Mousehole
• Newquay
• Okehampton
• Padstow
• Penzance
• Perranporth
• Plymouth
• Porlock
• Port Isaac
• St. Ives
• St. Mawes
• Tavistock and Environs
• Tintagel
• Topsham
• Torquay
• Totnes
• Trelissick
• Truro
• Wells

See Also

• England
• The West Country