Holiday Cottages - North Devon
Self catering holiday cottages ideal for exploring Exmoor, Dartmoor and the North Devon Coast
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Step inside this quality visitor attraction and embark on a fascinating journey through Barnstaple's history. The story is told through an exciting combination of audio and visual effects and information. Visitors come face to face with key figures such as an Elizabethan Town Clerk, A Mediaeval Mayor and a Todor Apothecary. Barnstaple Tel 01271 373003 Open all year (closed on Sundays) Suitable for wheelchairs Gift shop & Toilets Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon A visit to this museum is the perfect way to get to know the area's landscape, wildlife, history and culture. In The Story of North Devon, special effects and hands-on activity help you find out about life from prehistoric to Victorian times. You can explore Tarke the Otter's riverbanks and go under the sea to meet a giant Leatherback Turtle. Barnstaple's finest products are displayed here, from 17th Century pewter to Art Pottery by Brannam, Baron and Lauder and furniture by Shapland and Petter. Or military displays tell the stories of the Royal Devon Yeomanry and Devonshire Regiment. You can walk through our model Wellington bomber to view Chivenor airfield and find out how the Second World War affected peoples lives. Barnstaple 01271 346747 Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 4.30pm  Suitable for wheelchairs Toilets, gift shop, refreshments Torrington Tel 01805 624324 Open May - September (Monday - Friday 11am - 4pm) Torrington Museum A fascinating Free Museum giving an insight into a small country town in Devon over the centuries Law & Order Agriculture Transport Old Postcards Domestic Life Local Industries South Molton Museum In 1987 this museum won an illustrated London News award for the best small museum of the year. It displays offer a most coherent story line of the life and times of the town and the surrounding district, with items and photographs depicting domestic activities, trades, industry and farming. Discover a massive cider press with contemporary implements, two fire engines, one Newshams model bought in 1736 for £46 and the second which is horse drawn bearing the date 1886. South Molton Museum also has a unique pewter collection and various displays of minerals, most of which are from local mining works. South Molton 01769 572951 March - November (limited opening times) Suitable for wheelchairs Toilets Braunton Tel 01271 816688 Open all year (closed on Sundays) suitable for wheelchairs Braunton Museum The Bakehouse Centre was specially converted from a former bakehouse and two cottages to house today's Museum which is reputed to have its own ghost! It reflects the early beginnings of the town from the arrival of St Brannock from South Wales in the 6th Century, through to its agricultural and later maritime heritage. Nearby you will find the Great Field, this is a living example of one of only two early saxon strip-farming systems remaining in England and it is still operational today. While you are here why not visit the vantage point on Beacon Hill, where you can see wonderful views of the whole area including Braunton Burrows, Appledore and the estuaries of the Taw and the Torridge.  Instow Signal Box Visit the UK's first listed Signal Box on the Tarka Trail, saved from demolition and preserved complete with levers and equipment. Free admission Open Sunday afternoons and Bank Holidays Tel 01237 423585   Bideford Railway Museum This is situated at Bideford's former railway station and consists of a number of railway vehicles, artifacts and displays of local railway interest. There is also a gift shop, refreshment area and information about The Tarka Trail. Free admission. Open Sunday afternoons and Bank holidays plus Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in the summer Tel 01237 423585 Maritime Museum - Appledore The North Devon Maritime Museum is in a fine listed building, with items from our local seafaring past, models and photographs of sail and steam vessels, shipbuilding, fishing, wreck and rescue. World War ll Display. Video Shows most afternoons Appledore - Tel 01237-422064 Open Easter - October 2 - 5pm   Umberleigh Tel 01769 540740 Open daily in Summer, weekdays in winter Cobbaton Combat Collection This military museum covers mostly World War Two, but with exhibits from the Boer War up to the Gulf War. This collection ranges from military surplus tanks, guns, helmets, artillery, grenades, and bombs, to Home Front ration books, gas masks, ARP and Home Guard uniforms, and blackout lamps. In 1981 Preston Isaac's runaway hobby was opened to the public, and just keeps growing. The collection now has over 50 vehicles and literally thousands of other items. Signposted from A361, A377 and B3227 Barometer World & Museum Edwin Banfield, a retired Bank Manager, started this remarkable collection in 1971 and is an internationally renowned collector and prolific author on the subject of barometers. Over the years he has gathered together this fascinating collection of traditional mercury and aneroid barometers, barographs and pocket barometers. There is also a good selection of barometers available for sale, many of which make fascinating gifts. Merton, just south of Torrington on A386 - Tel 01805 603443 Open Tuesday - Saturday 9am - 5pm   Ilfracombe Tel 01271 863541 Open Summer -daily 10am - 5pm Winter weekdays 10am - 12.30pm  Ilfracombe Museum Ilfracombe Museum boasts a fascinating collection of over 20,000 items of natural history, victoriana, maritine,minerals, archaeology, maps, paintings, photos, militaria and costume related to local history, all lovingly gathered by curators and trustees for over 65 years. Ilfracombe Museum also offers a brass rubbing centre. Suitable for disabled Toilet and gift shop Lyn & Exmoor Museum St Vincent's Cottage is probably the oldest domestic building in Lynton an now houses a charming collection of curiosities, kitchen appliances, agricultural tools, printed ephemera, memorabilia and local historical items. Founded in 1962 the museum focuses on local history and events, including The Lynmouth Flood Disaster of 1952 and a model of the Lynton to Barnstaple railway. Nearly all the exhibits have been donated by local residents but will bring back memories for all visitors of how life has changed over the last couple of centuries. Lynton Tel 01598 752225 Easter - October (closed Saturdays) Combe Martin Tel 01271 882636 Open May - September, Sunday - Friday 1.30 - 4pm Combe Martin Museum A fabulous small museum which illustrates Combe Martin's history with artefacts, photographs, maps and pictures of the old village industries in silver mining, lime quarrying and burning, agriculture and horticulture together with details of its maritime history Suitable for disabled Toilets and gift shop Picnic areas Mortehoe Heritage Centre The Heritage Centre is housed in a National Trust barn situated in the clifftop village of Mortehoe. The exhibition gallery offers fun for all ages: an historical cameo of life in this dramatic coastal setting; a fascinating presentation of maritime history including many local shipwrecks. A unique opportunity to understand the history and culture of this beautiful corner of Britain. Children will love the Centre's 'hands on' games, puzzles and quizzes. Mortehoe, Woolacombe Tel 01271 870028 Easter - October (closed Fridays & Saturdays) 10am - 3pm (5pm July, Aug & Sept) Picnic area, play area and gift shop   Okehampton Tel 01837 52295 Open all year, but not at weekends in the winter. Museum shop, cafe nearby Okehampton Museum of Dartmoor Life Housed on three floors in an early 19th Century Mill this lively The museum tells the story of how people have lived, worked and played on and around Dartmoor through the centuries. It shows how the moorland shaped their lives just as their work shaped the moorland. In the Cranmere Gallery, temporary exhibitions feature local history, art and crafts.  Finch Foundry Museum Harnessing the fast-flowing waters of the River Taw, 19th century Sticklepath became a village of water wheels providing power for a variety of mills and rural industries. Among these was the foundry run by the Finch family, which from 1814 to 1960 produced agricultural hand tools and tools for the tin and copper mines and china clay industry of Devon and Cornwall. In 1966 a trust was set up to preserve the foundry, and today its buildings and machinery, mill leat (watercourse) and launder (a wooden aqueduct used to wash out debris), have all been restored to working order. Okehampton 01837 840046 April to Oct: daily except Tues 11 - 5.30  Off A30, 4 miles east of Okehampton For more information about museums in Devon - www.devonmuseums.net

Country Ways Holiday Cottages Little Knowle Farm, High Bickington, Umberleigh, Nr Barnstaple, North Devon, UK. EX37 9BJ Tel 01769 560503 / 561186 kate@country-ways.net