Tamar Valley
Designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Tamar Valley is an area rich in beauty and history. The valley is marked by four ancient towns, Launceston in the north with its steam railway and Norman castle, Tavistock to the east is a gateway to Dartmoor with its daily pannier market for food and crafts. Callington in the west with its unusual mural trail and Saltash with Brunel’s dramatic 1859 railway bridge, the Royal Albert, now partnered by the Tamar suspension road bridge. Around Gunnislake, disused mine buildings are a legacy of past glory where tin, copper and arsenic, supplying the world markets, were mined until the early 1900’s. Discover the delights of one of Britain’s loveliest branch lines that runs along the Tamar Valley from Plymouth to Gunnislake, or take a boat trip on the Tamar Passenger Ferry or a pleasure cruise from Plymouth. With beautiful historic houses and gardens to visit at Cotehele, Buckland Abbey – the home of Sir Francis Drake, Antony House and Mount Edgcumbe on the Rame Peninsula.
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