Ashburton Hotel, Ashburton

Advantages: Views.
Disadvantages: Nightlife.

...Okement; West Webburn, and the Yealm. Although some of these are tributaries, the remainder all run to the English Channel. Alongside the 'viewing' side of things, there are also a number of smaller towns and/ or villages. The villages consist of your usual pub; corner shop, and so on. Villages include Widecombe; Postbridge, and possibly even Princetown (HMP Dartmooris also based here). Towns are of a larger size,with more a shopping centre. They also include more well known stores (Boots/ Superdrug; Smiths, and so on). These are Tavistock; Okehampton; Ashburton. Alongside these things (and despite them being more adult-orientated), there are also a number of things to do for the children. Wide open spaces for mountain biking/ letting off steam, also letterboxing. Letterboxing took off in the 1850s, with only a handful of sites... Read review

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Advantages: Clean accomodation, animals, play areas
Disadvantages: Road access, restaurant only open two nights per week

...Parkers Farm is a caravan and camping site situated on a farm near to Ashburton in Devon. We stayed there in September 2005 from a Friday to Monday. GETTING THERE The caravan park was very easy to find, being just off the main Exeter to Plymouth road, the A38. A detailed map and instructions were sent to us with the booking form, but basically we just had to look out for the "Plymouth 26 miles sign" before taking the second left turning. Beware of missing this turning, however, as if you miss it, you have to turn around twice, because you can only access the road when travelling south. This was, frankly, a bit of a pain in the mornings, when we wanted to travel towards Exeter and had to drive down to Ashburton first to turn around. FIRST IMPRESSIONS When we first arrived, at around 6.30pm, there was no-one at reception, where we were... Read review

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Advantages: Lovely, largely unspoilt town
Disadvantages: None

..., with a National Trust Information Centre, restaurant facilities and a large complex of arts and crafts workshops where you can watch artists, potters, weavers et al at work and buy their produce. There are also several nature trails in unspoilt countryside and woodland starting from this area. Another two miles on the other side of Totnes, on the road to Torbay, is Berry Pomeroy Castle. Again, only the ruins survive, but an incomplete Tudor mansion built in the keep is worth visiting. In addition to the large towns and cities already mentioned, there are two small ancient market towns about 6-8 miles away along the A38 (Devon Expressway) between Exeter and Plymouth. Ashburton has the Dartmoor Bookshop, which in my view is probably the best secondhand bookseller in Devon, with a superb general stock covering three floors. Buckfastleigh is home... Read review

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