Pooh Cottage Holiday Park
✓ Secluded, fully serviced pitches within walking distance of the beach
🏖️ 1.31 miles from Budleigh Salterton (Good water quality)
Budleigh Salterton
Museums & Galleries · Exmouth
Fairlynch Musuem
📍 EX9 6NP
Photo: Ian Woolger (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
- Nationally important costume and geological collections
- Sir Walter Ralegh room exploring the local historical figure
- Smugglers' cellar to explore on your way out
- Costumes, lace and toy collections, some items 300 years old
- Museum shop selling souvenirs, cards, maps and gifts
Fairlynch Museum is a volunteer-run museum housed in a thatched cottage in Budleigh Salterton, covering local history, archaeology, geology, costumes, lace and toys, plus a dedicated room on Sir Walter Ralegh and a smugglers' cellar to explore. It suits curious visitors, family history researchers and anyone keen to learn more about this stretch of East Devon coast. The museum is open from April to November, Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays, with a shop selling souvenirs, cards, maps and gifts on your way out. It's a short stroll from Budleigh Salterton beach, just 0.2 miles away, with Exmouth station 4.1 miles off, and there are 75 bookable places to stay within 5 miles if you're planning an overnight visit.
Practical details
- Open
- 3 April to 1 November 2026, Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays
- Parking
- Pay & Display parking in the town centre, seafront and eastern end of the beach
- Booking
- Unaccompanied children are not admitted
From the attraction's own website on 4 Oct 2026 — check before you travel.
Facilities
- ✓ Gift Shop
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Grand Coastal retreats - Tamarisk Way 61
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Grand Coastal retreats - Tamarisk Way 66
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Devon Cliffs Holiday Park
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Grand Coastal Retreats - Apple Grove 24
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£537 per break
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2.3 mi
Grand Coastal retreats - Beech Walk 45
🏖️ a few minutes' walk from Sandy Bay (Good water quality)
Exmouth, South West England
Sleeps 6
£537 per break
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🗓️ Make a break of it
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🚆 Or come by train
- Exmouth 4.1 miles
- Lympstone Village 5 miles
- Starcross 5.5 miles
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