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The Beachside Holiday Park is only five minutes drive from the Mount Batten Centre - 2 miles away, where you can arrange almost any water sport including sailing and diving. From here it only takes 4 minutes by water taxi to the Barbican in Plymouth. Boat trips around the Sound and up the River Tamar to the Naval Dockyards can also be arranged. Within 1 mile is Staddons Heights golf club with panoramic views of Plymouth Sound, open to non-residents. The nearest riding stables are at Wembury, 5 miles away and there are beautiful trails along the coastal path for leisurely walks.
Plymouth City centre by road is only six miles away; here you will find a wide variety of excellent tourist attractions including the National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth Pavilions with a fabulous leisure pool and ice rink and The Theatre Royal where regularly London West End Shows start their life. If you are feeling adventurous, try the dry ski slope or toboggan run, open all year round. For a really special event, the annual Plymouth 2 day fireworks display shouldn’t be missed.
The historical site of the Hoe should not be missed where Sir Francis Drake played his famous game of Bowls whilst the Spanish Armada approached nor should the Barbican where you will find an assortment of cobbled streets with small rustic shops and fashionable restaurants - in this area you will also find the Plymouth Gin factory which arranges regular factory tours.
Holiday in Seaside Country……. it's everything you want it to be!
In Plymouth:
- Bovisand luxury apartments
- Bovisand Cottage
- Mount Batten Centre
- The Historic Barbican, with its cobbled streets.
- National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth.
- Theatre Royal for good shows, many starting in Plymouth before running in the West End.
- A modern pedestrianised shopping centre, rebuilt after the Blitz in 1943, with new Drake Circus Shopping Mall.
- Stroll along the Hoe where Drake played his famous game of Bowls whilst the Spanish Armada approached.
- Boat trips around the Sound and up the Tamar to the Naval Dockyards.
- The Pavilions - an entertainment and leisure centre.
In the Surrounding Area:
- Eden Project within 2 hours drive.
- Dartmoor within half an hours drive.
- Fishing villages of Looe and Polperro within an hours drive.
- Totnes Elizabethan Fair - Tuesdays.
- Morwellham Quay, Nr Tavistock, 1868 village back to life.
- Dartmoor Zooalogical Park, Sparkwell.
- Buckfast Abbey - Home of Francis Drake.
- Pennywell Farm
- Woodlands Theme Park
- Staddon Heights Golf Course
- St Mellion Golf Course
- Plymouth Gin
- www.langdoncourt.com
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