Castle Drogo
Museums & Science Centres · Drewsteignton, Devon
Also outdoor play & adventure playgrounds
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🏠 Indoor & outdoorCastleGardens🌲 WoodlandEducationalSchool holiday activities
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Limited car park 400 yards from the property, pay and display or JustPark app; members park free. Coaches and motorhomes over 10.5m not recommended on the approach roads.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Castle Drogo is the last castle built in England, finished in the 1930s for a grocery entrepreneur and designed by Edwin Lutyens. Its granite rooms, tapestries and modern touches make it an unusual house to explore with children, and the castle has a visitor centre with a café and shop. The grounds are a real draw for families: a high garden with lawns, terraces and a rhododendron area, a Bunty House to play in, and paths that drop down into the wooded Teign Gorge along the river. Kids' trails and activities run through the grounds during school holidays, and there are benches and a picnic area near the car park. The estate suits a mix of ages, from pushchairs on the garden routes to older children happy on longer walks. Dogs on leads are welcome in most areas.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Wellies
Wristband for lost childrenWrite your number on it before you go in.
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.- I-spy book
Waterproof trousers
Sun hat- Boot bag for wellies
Sick bagsYou only forget these once.- Travel sickness bands
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