Things To Do near Canonteign Falls

James Bowden & Son Hardware & Moorland Centre, Chagford, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

If you enjoy shopping, make sure you visit both James Bowden & Son Hardware & Moorland Centre and Webber & Sons when you're on holiday in Dartmoor. Located next to one another in the centre of Chagford, both seem to sell everthing you'd ever need whilst visiting or living on the moor. W...

Challacombe Medieval Strip Fields, Postbridge, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

Stand at English Heritage's Grimspound or Hookney Tor and look south west and you'll see weathered strips of farmland on the side of a steep hill. These are Challacombe Medieval Strip Fields. A local information board states that 'the narrow strip fields (lynchets) which you can see running...

Wind Tor, Widecombe in the Moor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

A section of the Two Moors Way runs along the spine of Hamel Down and then descends to Dunstone Down and Bittleford Down before moorland meets a mosaic of small fields. At the southern end of this moorland, where Dunstone Down merges into Bittleford Down, is Wind Tor. It's one of Dartmoor's flat out...

Meldon Hill, Chagford, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

Chagford is one of Dartmoor National Park's most popular visitor destinations. The town's located in pretty, rolling countryside in the north east section of the Park on the fringe of the high north moor. It's set beneath a large hill topped with rocky outcrops and a trig point. This is Meldon Hill....

Challacombe Medieval Hamlet, Postbridge, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

Dartmoor's most famous deserted medieval settlement sits below Hound Tor towards the eastern side of the National Park. An English Heritage site, it attracts plenty of visitors and bus loads of school kids learning about Dartmoor's past. Clearly, it's not the only deserted medieval settlement on Dar...

Challacombe Stone Row, Postbridge, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

The Warren House Inn is the highest pub in southern England. English Heritage's Grimspound is one of Dartmoor National Park's most famous prehistoric sites. Between them, near the deserted Challacombe Medieval Hamlet, is a rare example of a triple stone row on Dartmoor. The stone row is loca...

Challacombe Down, Postbridge, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

If you go for a drink or bite to eat at The Warren House Inn on a clear day at the end of Autumn, you'll enjoy one of the best moorland views in Dartmoor National Park. Giant waves of rusty moorland roll east. The huge bulk of Hamel Down shapes the horizon. Challacombe Down hunkers down below. In ad...

Hutholes Abandoned Medieval Settlement, Widecombe in the Moor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

An information board on site reads that 'this is the site of a deserted medieval settlement known today as Hutholes. Within an area of just under an acre lie the remains of six buildings dating to the 13th and 14th centuries A.D.' We've positioned Hutholes on Google maps so zoom in on the 'Satell...

Birch Tor, Postbridge, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

There are a number of places on Dartmoor that attract lots of visitors. The Haytor Rocks area, for example, is packed in the holiday season. Burrator Reservoir can turn into a car park on sunny summer weekends. The Warren House Inn area is another busy spot. Southern England's highest pub, The...

Royal Oak Inn, Ashburton, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

Royal Oak Inn is one of Dartmoor National Park's many attractions and we'll be adding more information shortly.

Birch Tor and Vitifer Tin Mine (Disused), Postbridge, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

The moorland east of The Warren House Inn is heavily scarred by centuries of tin mining. It's topped by Birch Tor. Birch Tor and Vitifer Tin Mine is the name given to a group of mines worked in this area. When you visit, you'll walk in, by or above scooped up of the moorland by the tinners....

Ausewell Wood, Buckland in the Moor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

Ausewell Wood is one of Dartmoor National Park's many attractions and we'll be adding more information shortly.

Ashburton Skatepark, Ashburton, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

Ashburton is a great base for an adventure holiday. In addition to local climbing centres, the wide range of adventure activities in the River Dart Country Park and easy access to both the high moors of Dartmoor National Park and watersports on the South Devon coast, you can also have a go on Ashbur...

Blackadon Local Nature Reserve, Poundsgate, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

Blackadon is a wonderful but relatively undervisited local nature reserve on Dartmoor If you look at Ordnance Survey Explorer mapping, you’ll see a strip of open access moor and heavily wooded valley to the west of the River Webburn. This is Blackadon Local Nature Reserve. Topped by a tor,...

Stone Lane Gardens and Mythic Garden Sculpture Exhibition, Chagford, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 9 miles away)

Gardens/family attraction The team behind Holiday in Dartmoor run a number of UK travel sites. We've spent over a decade photographing and researching South West England. Whilst it's not particularly well known, Stone Lane Gardens is as impressive as anything we've seen from the edge of Salisbury...