Leisure Breaks at
Buckerell Lodge Hotel, Exeter

Buckerell Lodge Hotel is surrounded by some of the country's most attractive scenery.

For lovers of the great outdoors, you can head off to explore Dartmoor National Park. Heather-covered moorland and deep wooded gorges, beautiful lake-like reservoirs and tumbling rocky rivers, thriving market towns and villages, patchwork farmland and craggy granite tors, the Dartmoor National Park covers an area of 368 square miles - the largest, and wildest, area of open country in southern England. There are nature reserves and Sites of Special Scientific Interest, endangered birds and rare plants, and thousands of archaeological sites. Set above the Teign Gorge, Castle Drogo 'the last castle to be built in England' offers you dramatic views over Dartmoor.

For a historical day visit Powderham Castle, which boasts the highest National Trust garden at 900 feet and lies in a beautiful Deer Park setting on the banks of the River Exe, just a stone's throw from the historic Cathedral of Exeter. The Courtenay family have been welcoming visitors since 1959 and the new Victorian Kitchen opened in 2007. Alternatively Killerton, is a fine 18th Century home, home to the 'Paulise de Bush' costume collection, with over 9,000 outfits and a delightful hillside garden. New for this year is 'Quilty Secrets' a stunning exhibition of quilted garments from the costume collection.

Exeter is the regional capital of the South West and as such offers numerous pastimes. Restaurants and bars abound and there is great shopping to be had in the malls or down the old cobbled alleyways. There are plenty of historic buildings to view and visit, including the city's famous Cathedral.

Some local places to visit include:

Bicton Park Botanical Gardens
Escot - Devon
Pecorama Model Railway

Local Events to Visit

Exeter Food Festival, Exeter
9 - 11 April 2010

Exmouth Festival
27 May - 4 June 2010

Devon County Show, Exeter
20 - 22 May 2010

Exmouth Festival, Exmouth
27 May - 4 June 2010