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What’s there
- Parking
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Dawlish Museum fills eleven rooms across three floors of The Knowle, a historic house in the middle of the Devon seaside town. The displays cover Dawlish from Victorian resort days to the present, with rooms on local industries, porcelain, geology and shops the town has lost. The best-known item is the bagpipes played on Sword Beach on D-Day, shown in the Piper Bill room alongside a large collection of old town photographs. A display on the storm of 2014 that damaged the railway line brings the story up to recent years. Younger visitors can enjoy the children's dressing-up rail, colouring, chalk boards and brass rubbing, and there is a dolls room and a small garden. The museum is run by volunteers and suits a rainy afternoon or a short visit between beach and train. It is compact, so a family can see it comfortably in an hour.
Open June to September only.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Lip balm
- Kids' headphones
- Blister plastersNew shoes and a long walk are a bad pairing.
- Fidget toy
- Travel sickness bands
- Refillable coffee cupA lot of cafés knock money off.
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