Landscove Holiday Park

The harbour village of Brixham is a short stroll away for sightseeing, fishing and all things nautical: there’s the Smuggler’s Story telling the 3D tale of smugglers in Brixham in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an annual regatta each year in August and the Golden Hind, the full-size replica of Sir Francis Drake’s sixteenth century ship. If you’re in town during summer, turn up on a Thursday for swashbuckling shenanigans with the Brixham Buccaneers, a local charity group which has also designed a family treasure trail around the town – details are on their leaflets which give info on Brixham and its history. There’s also the fifteenth century National Trust property Greenway near the town, described by local clime sleuth Agatha Christie as ‘the loveliest place in the world’. Also on the Landscove Holiday Park doorstep is the National Nature Reserve Berry Head with a country park and Napoleonic forts, all set within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the South West Coast Path: have a wander here or on the coast path itself, although we wouldn’t expect you to complete the entire 630-mile stretch in one day. There’s less strenuous local sightseeing on the seven-mile long Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway along the Torbay coast and bordering the Dart Estuary, with river trips to be had along the Dart between Dartmouth and Totnes. Kids can meet unicorns and get splashed on the water coaster at Crealy Adventure Park; bounce on the trampolines, go gaga on the go-karts and hoot at the owls at the biggest farm activity park in the south-west Pennywell Farm, or take a trip to Torquay to the interactive zoo Living Coasts. Paignton Zoo is also within easy reach for tropics trekking and savannah strolling, the Ashcombe Adventure Centre at Dawlish has clay shooting, archery and fishing, while inland there’s Dartmoor National Park within reach for hiking, biking, prehistoric landscapes and Dartmoor ponies.