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Things to do in Torquay
The best holidays are planned around great days out. Here's what's on the doorstep in Torquay, from big-ticket attractions to rainy-day savers.
🎟️ This weekend near Torquay
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Fri 13 Nov · 19:00
Greenish Day - A Tribute to Green Day - Torquay
The Foundry Torquay, Torquay · 0.1 mi
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Fri 13 Nov · 19:30
Forbidden Nights
Babbacombe Theatre, Torquay · 1.3 mi
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Fri 13 Nov · 22:00
A.M.C + PHANTOM, GINO + more | 13.11.26 | Move Exeter
Move Exeter, Exeter · 17.7 mi
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Fri 13 Nov · 19:00
Greenish Day
The Foundry Torquay, Torquay · 0.1 mi
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Aquariums
27.5 mi from Torquay
National Marine Aquarium
The National Marine Aquarium is the UK's National Aquarium, located in Plymouth and home to the Ocean Conservation Trust charity. Inside you'll find over 5,000 marine animals, the...
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Museums & Galleries
0.1 mi from Torquay
Dinosaur World
Dinosaur World is an indoor exhibition in Torquay harbour where you can walk among life-size dinosaurs such as a Triceratops and Dimetrodon, explore scaled scenes, dig for fossils...
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0.3 mi from Torquay
Torquay Museum
Torquay Museum tells the story of 400 million years of Torbay's heritage through hands-on, family-friendly exhibitions, including a popular Agatha Christie display with original co...
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6.1 mi from Torquay
Newton Abbot Museum
Newton Abbot Museum sits in a restored Victorian church, Newton's Place, and tells the story of the town through more than 17,000 collected items, from prehistoric finds to railway...
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6.3 mi from Torquay
Bishopsteignton Museum
Bishopsteignton Museum, run by Bishopsteignton Heritage, is a small local history resource in Bishopsteignton, Teignbridge, Devon, where you can search an archive of stories about...
7.4 mi from Torquay
Totnes Museum
Totnes Museum is a local museum in the town of Totnes, south Devon, in southwest England. — Wikipedia
7.6 mi from Torquay
Britannia Museum
Britannia Museum sits within Britannia Royal Naval College, telling the story of officer training at Dartmouth since 1863. Exhibits include a fine collection of French prisoner of...
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8 mi from Torquay
Dartmouth Museum
Dartmouth Museum occupies part of the historic Butterwalk, a terrace of merchants' houses built around 1640, and offers a small but wide-ranging collection covering the town's mari...
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10.7 mi from Torquay
St. Lawrence Chapel
St Lawrence Chapel is a historic 14th-century former chapel in Ashburton, now run as a community venue and heritage centre by the Guild of St Lawrence. You can attend a varied prog...
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11 mi from Torquay
Pengelly Trust Museum
The William Pengelly Cave Studies Trust runs a small museum and study centre at Higher Kiln Quarry, Buckfastleigh, within Dartmoor National Park. Founded in 1962, the volunteer-run...
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11.1 mi from Torquay
The Valliant Soldier Museum & Heritage Centre
The Valiant Soldier Museum & Heritage Centre is a small heritage attraction in Buckfastleigh, Devon, open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10am to 3.30pm. Inside you'll find a Visitor Ce...
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11.3 mi from Torquay
Bovey Tracey Heritage Centre
Housed in a restored old railway station, Bovey Tracey Heritage Centre tells the story of the town from medieval times to the present. You'll find archive material, photographs and...
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Theme Parks
9.8 mi from Torquay
Woodlands Family Theme Park
Woodlands Family Theme Park is Devon's largest theme park, offering water rides, a zoo farm with reptiles, meerkats and parrots, and one of the South West's largest indoor play are...
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13.4 mi from Torquay
Go Ape Haldon
Go Ape Haldon sits within Haldon Forest near Exeter, offering high ropes and zip wire adventures against the backdrop of Dartmoor. You can take on the classic Treetop Challenge wit...
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17.4 mi from Torquay
Crealy Adventure Park
Crealy Theme Park & Resort is a family theme park near Exeter in Farringdon, East Devon, with over 60 rides and attractions, including the South West's only inverted ride and the S...
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29.4 mi from Torquay
Diggerland
Diggerland is a hands-on theme park where you can ride, drive and operate real diggers, dumpers and other full-size construction machinery, alongside more than 20 rides and drives...
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Water Parks
3 mi from Torquay
Splashdown Quaywest
Splashdown Quaywest is the largest outdoor waterpark in the UK. It is located on Goodrington Sands Beach near to Paignton, Devon. — Wikipedia
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28 mi from Torquay
Tinside Lido
Tinside Lido is a 1935 Art Deco lido in the city of Plymouth in southwest England. It is sited beside Plymouth Sound and is overlooked by Plymouth Hoe and Smeaton's Tower. The lido... — Wikipedia
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Zoos & Wildlife
3.4 mi from Torquay
Paignton Zoo
Paignton Zoo is an 80-acre zoological park in Torbay, Devon, home to more than 1,800 animals including Sumatran tigers, western lowland gorillas, Bornean orangutans and Rothschild'...
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8.8 mi from Torquay
Theden Animal Park
Trago Mills is a chain of four department stores in south Cornwall, south Devon in England, and south Wales. It owns a site with an amusement park and some independent businesses,... — Wikipedia
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21.1 mi from Torquay
Dartmoor Zoo
Dartmoor Zoological Society is a 33-acre (13 ha) zoo just north of the village of Sparkwell, on the south-west edge of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon in the South West of England... — Wikipedia
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Where to stay near Torquay
Places to stay within easy reach of these days out.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best things to do in Torquay?
The list below shows attractions nearby with distances from Torquay.
What can we do in Torquay when it rains?
Museums, galleries and aquariums are your friends — filter the list below by category and keep a couple in reserve for wet days.
More ways to explore
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