Caerhays Castle and Gardens
A 140-acre hillside garden above the Cornish coast. One of the world's most important magnolia collections, plus camellias and rhododendrons. Dogs on leads welcome throughout.
Charlestown harbour
A late-Georgian harbour and UNESCO World Heritage site with tall ships at the quay, used as a filming location for Poldark and over a hundred other productions.
Coleton Fishacre
A National Trust Arts and Crafts garden cut into a coastal valley above the sea, three-pawprint rated for dogs and with a coast-path link out to a wartime…
Corfe Castle
A thousand-year-old royal castle ruin above its Purbeck village, slighted after a Civil War siege. Dogs on short leads welcome throughout, and in the National Trust tea-room.
Cornish Seal Sanctuary
A charity-run seal rescue and rehabilitation centre on the Helford River. Resident seals, sea lions and puffins, plus a woodland walk. Dogs on leads welcome throughout most of…
Dartmouth Castle & Castle Cove
A 14th-century coastal fortress at the mouth of the Dart, with a Tudor gun tower, Victorian batteries and Second World War defences cut into the rocks.
Durlston Country Park
A 320-acre clifftop country park and nature reserve above Swanage, with the Great Globe, a lighthouse and sea caves. Dogs welcome on leads, and inside the castle and…
Eden Project
Twenty acres of outdoor gardens in a former china clay pit, with planting drawn from climates around the world and miles of walkable trails outside the biomes.
Golitha Falls and Draynes Wood
A National Nature Reserve on Bodmin Moor where the River Fowey cascades through ancient oak woodland, with a free car park and a 9th-century memorial stone nearby.
Greenway
Agatha Christie's holiday home above the Dart, with a Georgian house, a 30-acre woodland garden running down to the river and a pet cemetery to the family's own…
Hurst Castle
Henry VIII coastal fort at the end of Hurst Spit, a 40-minute shingle walk from Milford on Sea. Dogs welcome on leads throughout.
Lanhydrock estate
A 900-acre National Trust estate above the River Fowey, with parkland, ancient woodland, six miles of cycle trails and the four-mile Respryn Ramble.
Photographs include beautiful, sweet Violet who passed away in 2021.
