English Heritage sites near Milton Abbot Parish
LYDFORD CASTLE AND SAXON TOWN
6 miles from Milton Abbot Parish
Beautifully sited on the fringe of Dartmoor, Lydford boasts three defensive features. Near the centre is a 13th-century tower on a mound, built as a prison.
LAUNCESTON CASTLE
7 miles from Milton Abbot Parish
Launceston Castle dominates the surrounding landscape. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest, unusual in that during rebuilding one tower was constructed with the remains of the older.
DUPATH WELL
7 miles from Milton Abbot Parish
This charming well-house of around 1500 stands over an ancient spring, believed to cure whooping cough.
MERRIVALE PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT
9 miles from Milton Abbot Parish
The group of monuments at Merrivale is one of the finest on Dartmoor: side by side here are the remains of a Bronze Age settlement and a complex of ritual sites.
HURLERS STONE CIRCLES
11 miles from Milton Abbot Parish
Three fine late Neolithic or early Bronze Age stone circles arranged in a line, a grouping unique in England.
UPPER PLYM VALLEY
12 miles from Milton Abbot Parish
This extraordinary landscape encompasses some 300 Bronze Age and medieval sites, covering 15 square kilometres (6 square miles) of Dartmoor.
Churches in Milton Abbot Parish
St Constantine
St Mary the Virgin
Pubs in Milton Abbot Parish
Chichester Arms
, Nr Lifton, Chillaton, PL16 0HP
(01822) 860233
chichesterarms.2day.ws/chichesterarms/
Edgcumbe Arms
The Village, Milton Abbot, PL19 0PB
(01822) 870603
edgcumbearms.co.uk