Hi all, We’ll be driving from Bournemouth to Penzance in early June 2024. We’d love to know of any recommendations of stops along the way and perhaps a 1 night stay somewhere to break up the 4 hour drive. We’ll stay in Penzance for several nights before heading up to our THS sit near Bude!

St.ives is beautiful & worth a stop but pretty close to Penzance in the scheme of it. Maybe a night in Exeter would be half way ish, we used to stay there to do Christmas shopping when we lived in Helston. Kynance cove & Sennen Cove have great costal walks. Enjoy!

From Penzance, make sure you visit the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno, hopefully for a performance! [IMG_4033] [IMG_4035] [IMG_4034]

Exeter is about halfway so stay over somewhere near there. From there I take the slower route across Dartmoor on the B3212 as I have a couple of favourite stopping-off points: Grimspound (a Bronze Age village, also featured in The Hound of the Baskervilles) Postbridge (a clapper bridge) Merrivale…

Don’t miss Dartmoor National Park; we visited for the first time this winter and fell in love with it; it’s a really unique place. We stayed in Ashburton for two nights after our house sit and quite enjoyed it. We had wonderful pie (with veggies and mash) at the Old Exeter Inn, a 900 year old pub. P…

Plan your route with Google Maps and then take a look and see what looks interesting along the route. Thats my advice, everyone has different tastes.

@lmhale have you seen the “travels with sam” thread? Very good related content…

When I went to Penzance, I stopped one night at an airbnb not far from the Eden project. We had a fabulous day there and left around 2pm to get down our destination in good time

Thank you, JayneH! St. Ives is on our list of places to visit as is some of the sites in Exeter!

Thanks so much! The Minack theatre looks amazing! I’ve just added it to our list of places to visit.

Thank you! We’re avid walkers and hikers who would probably love Dartmoor.

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DianeS 17 March 2024 22:19 13

If you’ve not yet discovered Ordnance Survey maps & books yet, the Explorer map for Dartmoor (OL 28) & the circular walks book are worth considering.

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