Activities
At Borough Farm:
Meet the animals, including wonderful rare breed Devon and Cornwall Longwool sheep. At Easter, you can help with lambing activities – lambs have been known to be named after guests!
If you are staying in June, you can help to pick elderflowers from the hedgerows and learn how to make delicious elderflower cordial, a popular gift to take home to family and friends.
Devon yurt offer nature guide books to help you with identifying and appreciating the abundance of wildlife seen at the farm, and each yurt has its own bird feeder.
There is a selection of Board games, guide books, novels and magazines for you to borrow, as well as outdoor games to play.
At Easter, Easter egg hunts can be arranged for children.
Massages and beauty treatments can be arranged – advance notice is required.
Places to visit:
Tavistock - ancient stannary town and award-winning market town
Brentor and Lydford Gorge
The Eden Project
The gardens at The Garden House, Rosemoor RHS gardens and Endsleigh Hotel Gardens at Milton Abbot
Yelverton
Outdoor & Active:
Dartmoor National Park is on your doorstep, and offers an abundance of walks, cycle paths and horse riding routes
In Lydford, walk out onto the open moor – this stunning route, which takes in Bleak House and Widgery Cross, was voted by The Times as one of Britain's best 20 walks.
If cycling is your thing, as well as the trails on Dartmoor there are woodland trails at Tamar Trails, Gulworthy.
The beautiful beaches of the North Cornwall coast are perfect for surfing, rock-pooling and dog-walking.
For those with a head for heights there is rock-climbing on both Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor.
Waterskiing at Rock
Cycle trails at Okehampton (The Granite Way) and Tavistock (Drake's Way)
Wadebridge for the Camel Trail
The Barn - a climbing barn in Milton Abbot
Treesurfers - Gulworthy
Sailing and kayaking at Roadford Resevoir
Surfing beaches on the North Cornwall Coast
Fishing – the Arundel arms at Lifton (5min) offers trout and salmon fishing and tuition on local rivers including the Tamar.
Historic Interest:
Cotechele on the River Tamar
Buckland Abbey
Yelverton
Castle Drogo
Chagford
Morwellham
Festivals & events
During the summer, most local towns have their own one day agricultural show as well as the larger county shows of Devon and Cornwall county in May and June respectively. Eden sessions offer live music events during the summer months with a variety of artists.