Drake Circus is a Shopping Centre in the county of Devon.

Drake Circus postcode: PL1 1EA

Retail in Drake Circus

There are great places to visit near Drake Circus including some great cities, historic buildings, villages, canals, rivers and streams, beaches, geological features, sssis, hiking areas, nature reserves, towns, parks, airports, castles and ruins.

Exeter is a great place to visit close to Drake Circus if you like cities.

Drake Circus has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like Exeter Cathedral, St Mary Steps, and St Stephen's Church - Exeter.

Don't miss Starcross, Lynton and Lynmouth, Littleham, Otterton, Branscombe, Beer, and Hope Cove's villages if visiting the area around Drake Circus.

There are a number of canals near Drake Circus including Exeter Canal, and Grand Western Canal at Tiverton.

Don't miss East Lyn River's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Drake Circus.

There are a number of beaches near Drake Circus including Blacklands Beach, Branscombe Beach, and Hope Cove.

There are a several good geological features in the area around Drake Circus like Valley of Rocks.

The area close to Drake Circus boasts some of the best sssis including Dartmoor.

Dartmoor is one of Drake Circus's best, nearby hiking areas to visit in Drake Circus.

There are a number of nature reserves near to Drake Circus including Dartmoor.

Don't miss Dartmouth, Tiverton, Crediton, Topsham, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, and Seaton's towns if visiting the area around Drake Circus.

Don't miss Bicton Park's parks if visiting the area around Drake Circus.

Drake Circus is near some unmissable airports like Exeter Airport,

Places near Drake Circus feature a number of interesting castles including Berry Pomeroy Castle.

Berry Pomeroy Castle is a great place to visit close to Drake Circus if you like ruins.

Drake Circus History

There are some historic monuments around Drake Circus:

• Round barrow N of Cadworthy Wood
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Three hut circles NW of Cadworthy
• Plympton Priory
• Inswork Chapel
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Hut circles W of Wigford Down China Clay Works
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Prehistoric enclosures on Dewerstone Hill, 500m south east of Dewerstone Cottage
• Knowle battery
• Eastern King battery
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Laira Battery
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Breakwater fort
• Lee Moor Tramway Bridge
• Fort Bovisand
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Greenwell Girt socket stone 600m SSW of Lovaton hamlet
• Austin Fort and section of military road
• Settlement on Wigford Down S of Durance
• Four round barrows on Wigford Down
• Settlement on Wigford Down
• Laira Emplacement, immediately south west of Laira Battery
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Woodland fort
• Round barrow on Burrow Hill
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• Beatland Corner socket stone: a wayside cross 900m south east of Shaugh Prior church
• Animal pound at The Pound, 620m south of Roborough House
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Cross in grounds of Stentaway House, Billacombe
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Efford Fort and Efford Emplacement
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Plympton Castle
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• Fort Stamford
• Ernesettle battery
• Crownhill Fort
• Three hut circles on south part of Wigford Down
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Two hut circles S of Catstor Down
• Hut circle on Wigford Down
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House
• Bowden Battery
• Agaton fort
• World War II Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 100m west of Princes Cottages
• Shaugh Prior village cross: a wayside cross at the road junction 150m east of the parish church
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Post-medieval deer park, medieval fishpond, 18th century triumphal arch and a 19th century lead mine, ore works and smelt mill at Boringdon Park
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Boringdon Camp hillfort and associated remains
• Cawsand Fort
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights