Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd LONELYPLANET.COM CONTENTS 25 CONTENTS INTRODUCING DEVON, CORNWALL & SOUTHWEST ENGLAND GETTING STARTED 8 FESTIVALS & EVENTS 1 CULTURE 12 FOOD & DRINK 16 OUTDOORS 2 FAMILY TRAVEL 2 THE AUTHORS 28 ITINERARIES 29 BRISTOL, BATH & SOMERSET 33 GETTING STARTED 36 BRISTOL 38 Essential Information 38 Orientation 38 Exploring Bristol 38 Festivals & Events 6 Gastronomic Highlights 6 Nightlife 8 Recommended Shops 5 Transport 5 SOMERSET 51 Bath 51 Wells 62 The Mendips 6 Glastonbury 69 The Somerset Levels 72 Taunton & Around 7 The Quantocks 76 Yeovil & Around 78 EXMOOR NATIONAL PARK 8 Essential Information 8 Exploring Exmoor 8 Gastronomic Highlights 8 Transport 8 DORSET 85 GETTING STARTED 88 BOURNEMOUTH 9 Essential Information 9 Orientation 9 Exploring Bournemouth 9 Gastronomic Highlights 93 Transport 93 AROUND BOURNEMOUTH 9 Essential Information 9 Exploring Around Bournemouth 9 Gastronomic Highlights 98 Transport 99 THE ISLE OF PURBECK 1 Essential Information 1 Exploring the Isle of Purbeck 1 Transport 1 DORCHESTER & INLAND DORSET 1 Essential Information 1 Exploring Dorchester & Inland Dorset 1 Gastronomic Highlights 11 Transport 11 WEYMOUTH & THE WEST COAST 111 Weymouth to Abbotsbury 111 Lyme Regis & Around 117 Driving Tour: The Jurassic Coast 12 DEVON 122 EXETER 123 Essential Information 123 Exploring Exeter 123 GETTING STARTED 126 Gastronomic Highlights 131 Nightlife 132 Transport 132 AROUND EXETER 133 Essential Information 133 Exploring Around Exeter 133 Transport 135 EAST DEVON 135 Essential Information 135 Exploring East Devon 136
26 CONTENTS LONELYPLANET.COM Gastronomic Highlights 139 Transport 1 TORQUAY & AROUND 1 Orientation 1 Essential Information 1 Exploring Torquay & Around 1 Gastronomic Highlights 17 Nightlife 17 Transport 18 SOUTH DEVON 18 Essential Information 18 Totnes & Around 18 Dartmouth & Start 152 Salcombe to Burgh Island 158 PLYMOUTH 162 Essential Information 162 Exploring Plymouth 163 Gastronomic Highlights 167 Nightlife 168 Transport 168 DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK 168 Southern Dartmoor 17 The Northern Moor 17 Driving Tour: A Dartmoor Road Trip 176 NORTH DEVON 177 Essential Information 178 Orientation 178 Exploring North Devon 178 Gastronomic Highlights 183 CORNWALL 185 GETTING STARTED 188 NORTH COAST 19 Bude & the Atlantic Highway 19 Padstow & Around 19 Newquay & Around 199 Perranporth to Portreath 23 WEST CORNWALL 26 St Ives 26 The Penwith Peninsula 21 Penzance & Around 217 THE LIZARD 222 Essential Information 222 Exploring the Lizard 222 Gastronomic Highlights 226 Transport 227 FALMOUTH, TRURO & THE ROSELAND 228 Falmouth 228 Around Falmouth 232 Truro 23 Driving Tour: The Roseland Peninsula 238 SOUTHEAST CORNWALL 239 St Austell & Around 2 Fowey, Looe & the Rame Peninsula 22 Driving Tour: Bodmin Moor 27 ISLES OF SCILLY 28 St Mary s 25 Tresco 252 Other Inhabited Islands 253 BACKGROUND 256 HISTORY 257 CORNWALL & THE ARTS 266 OUTDOORS 271 GARDENS 277 FOOD & DRINK 281 ACCOMMODATION 287 Bristol, Bath & Somerset 288 Dorset 291 Devon 295 Cornwall 31 DIRECTORY 38 Business Hours 38 Children 39 Customs Regulations 39 Dangers & Annoyances 31 Discount Cards 31 Food & Drink 311 Gay & Lesbian Travellers 312 Holidays 312 Insurance 313 Internet Access 313 Legal Matters 313 Maps 31 Money 31 Post 31 Telephone 31 Time 315 Toilets 315
LONELYPLANET.COM CONTENTS 27 Tourist Information 315 Travellers with Disabilities 315 Visas 316 TRANSPORT 317 Arrival & Departure 317 Getting Around 319 GLOSSARY 32 BEHIND THE SCENES 325 INDEX 328 MAP LEGEND 336 SOMERSET p3 DEVON p12 DORSET p86 CORNWALL p186
DEVON, CORNWALL & SOUTHWEST ENGLAND DARTMOOR p168 Explore the wilderness, and sleep in boutique bliss Bristol Channel Exmoor National " Park U Ilfracombe ST IVES Croyde p26 Barnstaple Savour the southwest's most artistic corner Barnstaple w Ta Westward Ho! Great Torrington ATLANTIC OCEAN Bude Widemouth ar m Ta ISLES OF SCILLY Challacombe South Molton Holsworthy Okehampton Bridestowe " U Rough Tor Dartmoor Port (m) Launceston National $ Isaac $ Park Brown Wadebridge Willy Tavistock Dartmeet (2m) Bodmin Newquay Plymouth Eden ^ Project p28 Escape to these far-flung islands and leave the outside world behind St Ives St Ives Falmouth Mount's Porthleven The Lizard EDEN PROJECT ST MICHAEL S MOUNT p22 Cross the cobbled causeway to this bewitching island abbey Modbury Salcombe Falmouth Penzance Isles of Scilly Truro St Austell p21 Three giant glass biomes house a pioneering ecological project
5 km 25 miles LEGEND BRISTOL p38 Primary Road 5m m 3m 2m 1m Secondary Road Be dazzled by the southwest's biggest, buzziest city Tertiary Road Railway line Airport BATH Alveston Severn Estuary! ELEVATION Freeway p51 Stroll along celebrated crescents, then sink into a geothermal hot tub A ^ Bristol vo n Bath Cheddar Bridgwater Cheddar Gorge Wookey Minehead Hole Wells Dunkery Beacon (52m) Taunton Shaftesbury Yeovil Chard Blandford Forum o St Bridport The Isle of Corfe Castle Purbeck Weymouth CORFE CASTLE English Channel p115 DISTANCE CHART (miles) Bournemouth Note: distances are approximate 67 Bristol 12 Exeter 1 8 75 Penzance 215 196 193 11 Plymouth 1 128 118 3 79 Truro 19 175 17 87 28 8 ou ce th 57 ym th m Ba ne ur Go fossil hunting along shores sculpted into coves, arches and stacks Bo JURASSIC COAST p11 An enchanting show-stopper fall in love with this utterly romantic ruin Pl Tor Bournemouth ^ r Torquay Paignton Chesil Beach an Exmouth Poole et e Dorchester Pe nz Lyme ol Lyme Regis Exeter ^ Ex th Exe ur Honiton ist Tiverton ou Warminster Glastonbury The Quantocks Br $ eux
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