DEVON FAMILY FUN

Brixham Pirate Festival
Various location across Brixham
May 5th and May 6th 2012

The Brixham Pirate Festival is a weekend bursting with entertainment for young and old! Everyone is welcome to join in with the pirate games, re-enactments and fancy dress record attempt.

The festival broke the Guinness World record for the biggest gathering of pirates in 2010 with 1744 people dressed as pirates on Brixham's harbour.
www.brixhampiratefestival.co.uk
 

The Hunting of the Earl of Rone
Combe Martin, North Devon
Between May 25th - May 28th 2012

Each spring bank holiday, Combe Martin holds the Hunting of the Earl of Rone, a re-enactment of an ancient legend. People in costume form a parade led by a hobby horse to hunt out the Earl, who rides backwards on a donkey.

Villagers start hunting the Earl on Friday evening until Monday, when he is captured in Lady's Wood at the top of the village. He is then escorted down to the seaside and thrown into the sea.
www.earl-of-rone.org.uk
 

Husbandry School's Creative Sunday Workshop
Liddy Ball, near Ashburton
Various dates througout the year

A lively monthly workshop that follows the changing seasons with traditional storytelling and participatory story making activities for all the family.  Activities include drawing, painting, sculpting, making, finding and listening. The Husbandry School, just outside Ashburton, is set on a stunning hilltop location over looking the hills of Dartmoor. The Creative Workshop is suitable for children 5 years and up and must be accompanied by an adult.
www.husbandry.co.uk

 

The Miniature Pony Centre
Near Moretonhampstead, Dartmoor National Park
Open daily between March 24th - November 4th 2012

Located only minutes away from Bovey Castle, The Miniature Pony Centre is one of Dartmoor's most popular family attractions. Children will love the miniature ponies and donkies, pony rides, pets' corner, indoor and outdoor play areas and school holiday activities.
 www.miniatureponycentre.com 

 

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Exeter
Free entry and opening times listed on website

The RAMM has reopened after an extensive programme of expansion and enhancement to create a learning space that will engage with people - young and old. The displays aim to do more than
re-present the collections, they intend to stimulate thoughts and ideas, seek opinions and contributions, start conversations and encourage debate, making the Royal Albert Memorial Museum home to a million thoughts.

Young RAMM offers a diary of children's events througout the year, including animation, model making and guided activity tours.
www.rammuseum.org.uk
 

 
Jurassic Coast
East Devon and Dorset coastline

UNESCO awarded Natural World Heritage status to the coast of Dorset and East Devon in December 2001, in recognition of its unique landscape, which spans 185 million years of Earth history.

Start your exploration of this beautiful coastline at Orcombe Point in Exmouth, here the rocks are 250 million years old and are red in colour. Follow the Jurassic coastline into Dorset and Studland Bay, where you could spot dolphins, basking sharks and hundreds of different types of birds.
www.jurassiccoast.com



The National Marine Aquarium
Plymouth
Opening times listed on website

Visit the UK’s largest aquarium and be amazed at the fascinating underwater worlds.
Start with a rock pool ramble in Shallow Waters then move deeper into the coastal seas of the Atlantic Reef.

Follow the mesmerising Ocean Drifters and enter the depths of the aquarium in our Lost At Sea exhibition. Here you’ll find the Atlantic Ocean tank teeming with sharks, rays, tarpon and countless other species swimming in shoals or grazing on a sunken WWII sea plane. After meeting our freaky fish in Weird Creatures you’ll finally reach the visual spectacular of Coral Seas, the perfect place to end your journey.
www.national-aquarium.co.uk

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