Morwellham Quay
Museums & Science Centres · Tavistock, Devon
Also farm shops with play areas, soft play & indoor play
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🏠 Indoor & outdoorEducationalAdventure play🛝 Soft playFarm🛝 Playground☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Dogs welcome
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Morwellham Quay is a restored 19th-century river port beside the Tamar, set in a World Heritage landscape. Visitors wander a recreated Victorian village, the docks and quays, a restored sailing ship and the old ore-crushing machinery, with costumed staff and hands-on activities such as bread and rope making, panning for gold, blacksmithing and pottery. A small battery train takes visitors into the George and Charlotte copper mine, where the working conditions of Victorian miners are explained. Younger children tend to enjoy the indoor Miners Adventure Play area, and the site has a pub, a brewery and a farm area. Because much of the site is outdoors over uneven paths, slopes and steps, families should wear sensible footwear and plan for a full day of walking.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Grip socksMost parks make you buy theirs at the door.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Fidget toy
- Flask of tea
- Sketchbook
- Travel sickness bands
- Travel pillow
- Gloves
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