National Trust & English Heritage places in Devon

Unique 16-sided Georgian house near Exmouth with a shell gallery and panoramic estuary views.

Regency house in North Devon with eclectic collections, a carriage museum and Victorian gardens.

One of East Devon's largest woods, planted after the First World War on the Killerton estate, with waymarked trails, bluebells, rare butterflies and off-lead dog walking from the free Forest Gate car park.

A dramatic headland near Croyde with stunning Atlantic views and rich marine life.

Miles of rugged North Devon coast from Westward Ho! to Welcombe, with Brownsham woods, Mouthmill beach, Shipload Bay, Peppercombe Valley and Kipling Tors on the South West Coast Path.

15th-century manor house hidden in a Newton Abbot valley, with a medieval chapel and wildflower meadow.

A picturesque Devon village with a working bakery, watermill and forge.

Sir Francis Drake's monastery home in the Tavy Valley with his famous drum on display.

Free riverside parking by the River Plym on Dartmoor's south-western edge, with open common, prehistoric stone rows and hut circles, and a circular walk to the Dewerstone.

The last castle built in England, a Lutyens masterpiece above the Teign Gorge on Dartmoor.

Early 19th-century watermill by the River Clyst on the Killerton estate, with three floors of milling machinery, an orchard for picnics and an easy six-mile walk or cycle from Killerton.

1920s Arts and Crafts house with a lush valley garden tumbling to the Devon coast.

Fortified medieval manor house near Paignton, home of the Gilbert family since 1329.

National Trust cliffs, coves and farmland either side of the Dart estuary, with a Civil War fort above Dartmouth, a Second World War battery at Froward Point and quiet beaches at Man Sands and Scabbacombe.

Tranquil Devon parkland around the site of a Tudor mansion destroyed by fire in 1967, with the surviving coach house, veteran sweet chestnuts and an old orchard.

Last working water-powered forge in England with original 19th-century machinery on the edge of Dartmoor.

A 17th-century stone arch bridge over the River Teign, the gateway to the ancient Fingle Woods and the Castle Drogo estate on the edge of Dartmoor.

Agatha Christie's riverside holiday home on the Dart with woodland gardens and personal collections.

A dramatic wooded valley on the Exmoor coast with ancient oak woodland and coastal walks.

Devon hillside estate near Exeter with champion trees and a celebrated fashion collection.

Gothic Revival house near Tiverton with Burges interiors and one of Devon's finest gardens.

Sheltered cove with rock pools, the Fuchsia Valley village of Lee and coast path walks to Bull Point and the Ilfracombe Torrs, from a new National Trust car park opened in 2026.

The Exmoor valley of R.D. Blackmore's novel: Badgworthy Water, a deserted medieval village, Exmoor ponies, a wild play area and five waymarked walks from Malmsmead.

A secret 17th-century Baptist chapel hidden in woodland, with original box pews.

Remote granite island in the Bristol Channel with puffins, seals and England's first Marine Conservation Zone.

Devon's deepest gorge with the White Lady Waterfall, Devil's Cauldron and ancient woodland trails.

A North Devon village that opens onto Morte Point, a rocky National Trust headland with seals, views to Lundy and a coast path to Bull Point lighthouse.

Edwardian house above Salcombe with an eccentric inventor's collection and exotic subtropical garden.

Dartmoor gateway estate at Bovey Tracey with riverside walks, ancient woodland and a walled garden.

A wooded valley along the River Plym with a viaduct, old quarries and rich wildlife.

Dramatic clifftop walks between Bolt Head and Bolt Tail in the South Hams.

Grand Georgian mansion near Plymouth with Robert Adam interiors and sweeping parkland.

Oak woods and boulder-strewn rivers where the Meavy meets the Plym on Dartmoor, with 19th-century industrial ruins and the granite crags of the Dewerstone above.

Important medieval manor house in Devon with a battlemented gatehouse and 14th-century great hall.

National Trust clifftops and valleys above Sidmouth on the Jurassic Coast, with a toposcope viewpoint on Salcombe Hill, coast path walks and an accessible loop from the car park.

A long sandy beach with rock pools near Thurlestone in South Devon, looking out to the Thurlestone Rock archway, with a wetland for birds and the coast path to Hope Cove.

A historic watermill near Wembury Beach with views to the Great Mewstone.

Exmoor beauty spot where two rivers meet in a deep, ancient oak woodland gorge.

Three miles of surfing sands, orchid-rich dunes and the heights of Woolacombe Down, with the National Trust's Marine Drive car park running the length of the beach.

New National Trust outdoor hub on the Arlington Court estate with a surfaced multi-use trail, natural play area, cycle skills pump track and walks into the wider estate, off the A39 near Shirwell.

A late Bronze Age village of 24 stone roundhouses inside a great walled pound, high on Dartmoor between Hookney and Hameldown tors.

Stone longhouses of a 13th-century Dartmoor farming hamlet between Hound Tor and Greator Rocks, reached by a half-mile walk over the tor.

A medieval prison tower, Norman earthworks and Saxon defences on the edge of Dartmoor.

Bronze Age roundhouses beside double stone rows, a stone circle and a tall menhir on open Dartmoor, just south of the B3357.

An extensive Dartmoor archaeological landscape of Bronze Age settlements, stone rows and later working remains.