Plymouth (Devon)

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Plymouth is a port city (and major naval base) in Devon in England.

1 Get in
2 Get around
3 See
4 Do
5 Buy
6 Eat
7 Drink
8 Sleep
9 Get out
10 External links

Get in

Plymouth Airport offers domestic flights as well as flights to Dublin and Cork.

Plymouth's principal access route is the A38 dual carriage way which connects to the M5 in a northerly direction, and into the heart of Cornwall in a westerly direction. The A386 connects Plymouth to Tavistock, Okehampton, the A30, and North Devon.

Plymouth is on a main line rail route connecting to London, Bristol and the North of England. The railway also goes here from Cornwall. If visiting from outside the West Country by rail, the train will take you along one of the most scenic railways in Britain (between Exeter and Newton Abbot).

Brittany Ferries operate a service to Plymouth, from Santander and Roscoff.

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Get around

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See

The National Marine Aquarium is Britain's foremost aquarium, and is located near the historical Barbican.
The Barbican Glassworks includes a studio where visitors can watch skilled glass blowers demonstrate their craft.
Plymouth Hoe, allegedly the scene of Sir Francis Drake's apocryphal game of bowls prior to his taking on the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Saltram House, once home of the artist Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Royal William Yard, once the place from which the British Navy was provisioned

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Do

The Mayflower Steps is the site where the Pilgrim Fathers departed from, aboard the Mayflower, before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to colonise North America. Today boat trips leave from there for tours of Plymouth Sound, although the original site is believed to be where the Admiral McBride public house now stands.

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Buy

Plymouth's city centre is currently being redeveloped which means it is a mess at the moment. Shops are not that great but the covered Market at the bottom of town is interesting.

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Eat

Tanners Restaurant Prysten House, Finewell Street, Tel 01752 252001. Probably the best restaurant in Plymouth.

Cafe India in Stoke Village is definitely the best Indian restaurant in Plymouth.

If you really want fine dining, there are much better places to eat out than in Plymouth itself, which currently is suffering a dearth of classy restaurants in the wake of the closure of one of the legendary eating places of the south-west, Chez Nous. The Horn of Plenty at Gulworthy (20 miles), near Tavistock is acceptable, the New Carved Angel at Dartmouth (35 miles) is fantastic, as is Gidleigh Park Hotel at Chagford.

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