About Plymouth

About Plymouth

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All hands on deck for a city break packed with maritime magic and historical fervour.

If you could pick up the city or town you live in and place it anywhere in the UK, you’d be struggling to find a more beautiful location than the one currently occupied by Plymouth.

As a city, Plymouth has heaps going for it. Firstly, with a population of about 241,000, it’s one of the largest cities on Britain’s south coast. Secondly, it has a location to die for. To the south, you have its stunning natural harbour and, a none-too arduous ferry ride away, the sights and sounds of France and Spain within your grasp. To the east, we have the picture-postcard villages of the South Hams, Totnes (England’s New Age capital) and the yachting havens of Dartmouth and Salcombe. To the north, you’ll find Dartmoor National Park with its wild moorland and roaming ponies, while Bodmin Moor – of eerie deserted tin mine and resident beast fame - is just a giant’s stone throw away.

Best of all, to the east, you also have some of the finest beaches the UK has to offer and the rural eye candy of Cornwall right on your doorstep.

Before you hare off to explore its neighbouring delights, there’s a feast of fun to be had in Plymouth itself.

Plymouth’s top 10

1.   National Marine Aquarium
2.   Plymouth Dome
3.   Smeaton’s Tower
4.   Eating seafood by Sutton Harbour
5.   Theatre Royal
6.   Strolling through the cobbled streets of the Barbican
7.   Mayflower Steps
8.   Cremyll Ferry to Mount Edgcumbe
9.   Mount Batten Centre
10. Plymouth Gin Distillery

Daniel Defoe, 1704: "This plain on the edge of the sea… I observed a scene so serene, so calm, so bright and the sea so smooth, that a finer sight I think I never saw"

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