Tourist attractions Plymouth

Saltram House is a magnificent Tudor mansion (late medieval) that was restored after a fire in the 18C by great artists such as Adam, Chippendale, Reynolds and Angelica Kauffmann. Consequently, it boasts some of the finest rooms in the country. Visit..

Buckland Abbey was the last Cistercian abbey built in England and Wales. In the 16C it became an Elizabethan mansion and, later on, a family home. It was restored after a fire in 1938. Particular points of interest are the 14C barn, the Four Lives Ga..

The spacious Victorian building displays a mere fraction of its rich and splendid collections relating to Plymouth's maritime history. The Cottonian Colllection includes paintings, drawings by European masters, prints, engravings, books, manuscript..

The church, founded in 1050 and rebuilt in the 15C, was bombed in 1941; this left only the walls, the fluted granite pillars, chancel arches and the 41 m tower standing. The church was rebuilt and reconsecrated in 1957. It has six stained-glass wind..

Prysten House (Prior's House), the oldest house in Plymouth (1490), is three storeys high and has an inner courtyard with open wooden galleries. The living room has a fine wooden ceiling, its beams still blackened by smoke - a legacy of the Dissoluti..

This mid-16C timbered house, its windows running the full width and height of the front, owes its present style to William Parker, Mayor of Plymouth from 1601 to 1602 also a merchant and prosperous sea captain. It houses the Museum of Old Plymouth, i..

Parts of Old Plymouth still exist in the Barbican, an area extending inland from Sutton Harbour, where modern developments and medieval houses, Jacobean doorways and cobbled alleys rub shoulders. The Mayflower Stone on the pier commemorates the voy..

The distillery is housed in what was once a Dominican Friary, founded in 1425. Today it is possible to go on a guided tour to see how gin is made.

The Elizabethan House at no 32 New Street and its neighbour were built in the late 16C as part of a development for merchants and sea captains prosperous from trade and booty. The timber-framed and limestone houses are distinguished by their window..

From "that loftie place at Plimmouth call'd the Hoe", Francis Drake (1540-1596) is said to have observed the "invincible Spanish Armada" arriving one day in 1588. It is still an ideal point from which to view the maritime traffi..

From the early 15C, the land to the east of the Hoe served as the site for a stronghold and a fort was built in around 1590 to protect the Sound against marauding Spaniards. It was in this place that Charles II had the Royal Citadel built in 1671. Th..

The seawater tanks around the gallery contain a variety of species from local waters. The 50 kinds of fish and hundreds of invertebrates are there primarily for observation by the Marine Biological Association.