English Heritage sites near Gulworthy Parish
DUPATH WELL
5 miles from Gulworthy Parish
This charming well-house of around 1500 stands over an ancient spring, believed to cure whooping cough.
MERRIVALE PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT
7 miles from Gulworthy Parish
The group of monuments at Merrivale is one of the finest on Dartmoor: side by side here are the remains of a Bronze Age settlement and a complex of ritual sites.
UPPER PLYM VALLEY
8 miles from Gulworthy Parish
This extraordinary landscape encompasses some 300 Bronze Age and medieval sites, covering 15 square kilometres (6 square miles) of Dartmoor.
LYDFORD CASTLE AND SAXON TOWN
9 miles from Gulworthy Parish
Beautifully sited on the fringe of Dartmoor, Lydford boasts three defensive features. Near the centre is a 13th-century tower on a mound, built as a prison.
LAUNCESTON CASTLE
11 miles from Gulworthy Parish
Launceston Castle dominates the surrounding landscape. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest, unusual in that during rebuilding one tower was constructed with the remains of the older.
ROYAL CITADEL, PLYMOUTH
11 miles from Gulworthy Parish
A dramatic 17th-century fortress built to defend the coastline from the Dutch, and keep watch on a recently rebellious town. Still in use by the military today.
Churches in Gulworthy Parish
St Paul's Gulworthy
Gulworthy Cross
Gulworthy
Tavistock
St Paul's Gulworthy is known as 'The Miner's Church' and was built in 1856 by Francis Sackville Russell, the 7th Duke of Bedford, to serve the large number of people working in the local metal mines. It is listed Grade II.
St Paul's is a sister church to St Eustachius Church in Tavistock and Brentor Tor.
A Eucharist service is held on Sunday morning at 11.15am.
Pubs in Gulworthy Parish
Copper Penny Inn
Chipshop, Chipshop, PL19 8NT
(01822) 833288
copperpennyinn.co.uk/
Harvest Home
Horn of Plenty Country House Hotel & Restaurant
Gulworthy, Gulworthy, PL19 8JD
(01822) 832528
thehornofplenty.co.uk/
Ship Inn
Morwellham Quay, Nr Tavistock, Morwellham Quay, PL19 8JL
(01822) 832803
morwellham-quay.co.uk/theshipinn