English Heritage sites near Bridestowe Parish
LYDFORD CASTLE AND SAXON TOWN
3 miles from Bridestowe Parish
Beautifully sited on the fringe of Dartmoor, Lydford boasts three defensive features. Near the centre is a 13th-century tower on a mound, built as a prison.
OKEHAMPTON CASTLE
6 miles from Bridestowe Parish
Once the largest castle in Devon, nestling in the foothills of Dartmoor. Reputedly haunted and mentioned in the Domesday Book.
MERRIVALE PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT
9 miles from Bridestowe Parish
The group of monuments at Merrivale is one of the finest on Dartmoor: side by side here are the remains of a Bronze Age settlement and a complex of ritual sites.
LAUNCESTON CASTLE
11 miles from Bridestowe Parish
Launceston Castle dominates the surrounding landscape. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest, unusual in that during rebuilding one tower was constructed with the remains of the older.
GRIMSPOUND
13 miles from Bridestowe Parish
The best known of many Dartmoor prehistoric settlements, Grimspound dates from the late Bronze Age. The remains of 24 stone houses survive within a massive boundary wall.
UPPER PLYM VALLEY
13 miles from Bridestowe Parish
This extraordinary landscape encompasses some 300 Bronze Age and medieval sites, covering 15 square kilometres (6 square miles) of Dartmoor.
Churches in Bridestowe Parish
St Bridget
Bridestowe
Okehampton
01837 861580
https://www.northmoorteam.org.uk
Today St Bridget's is a member of the Northmoor Team of Churches in the Okehampton area on the north-west edge of Dartmoor. But St Bridget's has been the parish church for Bridestowe since the fifteenth century, though the village had earlier places of worship before the present church was built. Services are shared with St. Thomas a Becket, Sourton.There is a morning service every second and third Sunday at St Bridget's The church is currently open for visitors and private prayer every Sunday and Wednesday. Enquiries about baptisms and weddings are always welcome.
Pubs in Bridestowe Parish
Fox & Hounds Hotel
, Bridestowe, Lydford, EX20 4HF
(01822) 820206
foxandhoundshotel.com
White Hart Inn
Fore Street, Bridestowe, EX20 4EL
(01837) 861318
whitehartinnbridestowe.com