Meldon is a Village in the county of Devon.

Meldon postcode: EX20 4LU

Retail in Meldon

There are great places to visit near Meldon 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.

Cities to visit near Meldon include Exeter.

Meldon's best nearby historic buildings can be found at 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 Meldon.

Meldon has some unmissable canals nearby like Exeter Canal, and Grand Western Canal at Tiverton.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Meldon include East Lyn River.

Don't miss Blacklands Beach, Branscombe Beach, and Hope Cove's beaches if visiting the area around Meldon.

Places near Meldon feature a number of interesting geological features including Valley of Rocks.

Places near Meldon feature a number of interesting sssis including Dartmoor.

There are a number of hiking areas near to Meldon including Dartmoor.

Nature Reserves to visit near Meldon include Dartmoor.

The area around Meldon features a number of interesting towns including Dartmouth, Tiverton, Crediton, Topsham, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, and Seaton.

Meldon is near some unmissable parks like Bicton Park,

Meldon is near some unmissable airports like Exeter Airport,

Don't miss Berry Pomeroy Castle's castles if visiting the area around Meldon.

Places near Meldon feature a number of interesting ruins including Berry Pomeroy Castle.

Meldon History

There are some historic monuments around Meldon:

• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Ring cairn 1060m south west of Great Nodden
• Gallows Hill
• A prehistoric settlement complex, length of reave, tin streamwork and stamping mill on the western slopes of Cosdon Hill
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Round cairn 340m north of Hare Tor
• Enclosed stone hut circle settlement 260m north of Deadlake Foot
• Stone circle, cairn alignment, cider millstone and boundary ditch 410m south east of Sourton Tors
• Ring cairn 230m south east of Cullever Steps
• Cairnfield, irregular aggregate field system, a ring cairn and three round cairns 800m and 920m south of Moorgate Farm
• Round cairn 310m SSW of Great Links Tor
• Okehampton Castle: a motte and bailey castle with associated earthworks north of the West Okement River.
• Ring cairn 460m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Three cairns forming the westernmost part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Ring cairn 510m south west of Great Nodden
• Cist on Whitehorse Hill, 910m south east of Taw Head
• Stone hut circle 370m south east of Great Nodden forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Deserted medieval site N of Okehampton camp
• Enclosed stone hut circle settlement 540m east of Doe Tor
• A stone hut circle forming part of an unenclosed settlement, and tinners' building at Watern Oke
• Two cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the northern slope of White Hill
• Stone hut circle settlement 280m south-west of Deadlake Foot
• Three stone hut circles situated west of the enclosed stone hut circle settlement 260m north of Deadlake Foot
• Round cairn and shelter 140m north west of Yes Tor summit
• Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Icework at Sourton Tors
• Deserted medieval site 1/4 mile (400m) W of Okehampton camp
• Round cairn 300m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• A stone hut circle 430m NE of Ger Tor forming part of a settlement situated within a large enclosure
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Observation Post 6 and Incline Target Carrier Railway
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 770m NNW of Little Links Tor
• Two stone hut circles and a field 340m south west of Lints Tor
• Civil War redoubt 750m south east of East Linnacombe
• Stone hut circle and field-plots 100m east of Ger Tor
• Two stone hut circles 310m south of Deadlake Foot
• Stone hut circle 400m south east of Great Nodden forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Westernmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Two bowl barrows on East Kimber Common 525m north west of Stoney
• Cairnfield and associated earthworks on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• North easternmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Round cairn 190m east of Doe Tor summit
• Stone hut circle, cairns and irregular aggregate field system 850m SSE of Sourton Tors
• Lake Down cairnfield 810m ESE and 780m east of Lake Viaduct
• Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement 290m north west of Lints Tor
• Camp SE of Okehampton
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Round cairn 380m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Tinners' building lying adjacent to the Black Ridge Brook and situated 1540m NNE of Fur Tor
• Seven cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Round cairn 270m west of Great Nodden
• Medieval homesteads S of Meldon quarry
• Round cairn 60m WSW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Round cairn 250m south east of Winter Tor
• Tor cairn 70m WNW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Ring cairn and rectangular building earthwork 940m west of Widgery Cross
• Round cairn on Black Down 410m south west of Anthony Stile
• Cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Round cairn and cist on Black Down 1.6km east of Higher Bowden
• Stone hut circle 530m ESE of Nodden Gate forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Enclosure in Parsonage Wood
• Hut circles and a length of enclosure wall, forming part of a stone hut circle settlement 600m east of Nodden Gate
• Ring cairn 50m north-east of White Hill summit forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Round cairn 700m south-west of Great Nodden
• Round cairn 550m SSE of Longstone Hill summit
• Tor cairn surrounding Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Tinners' building 90m north east of the confluence of the Brim Brook and West Okement River
• Round cairn 470m south east of Sourton Tors
• Stone hut circle lying south of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Wayside cross at crossroads 120m NNW of St Andrew's Church
• Tor cairn 180m north of High Willhays summit
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Round cairn 240m north of Ger Tor
• Round cairn 50m north west of Yes Tor summit
• Deserted medieval site NW of Okehampton camp
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Experimental Parapets and Redoubt
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Two round cairns 840m south west of Great Nodden
• Two stone hut circles 1000m north of Standon Down
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Deserted medieval site 1/2 mile (810m) W of Okehampton camp
• Guide post at Place Cross
• Southernmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and associated fields north of Standon Down
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Cairn and cist forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• A double stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
• Three round cairns 420m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Willsworthy Pound adjacent to Willsworthy Bridge
• Two partially enclosed stone hut circle settlements and a round cairn on the eastern slope of Oke Tor
• Platform cairn 30m north west of Fordsland Ledge
• Two cairns forming the north eastern edge of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• The westernmost of four cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Quintin's Man round cairn
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Ring cairn 660m north west of Little Links Tor
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• A cluster of five stone hut circles situated within a large enclosure 470m north-east of Ger Tor
• Bowl barrow on Wadland Down
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Ring cairn on Great Nodden summit
• Eight stone hut circles and a shieling forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
• Ten stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke
• Motte with two baileys and a multivallate hillfort at Burley Wood
• Foxhole Mine and other tinworks south east of Arms Tor
• Milestone N of Lower Beardon
• Two round cairns 715m south-west of Great Nodden
• Enclosure 1250m NNW of Standon Down
• Stone hut circle settlement and enclosures 970m east of Ger Tor
• Southern White Hill cairnfield
• Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Round cairn 250m south east of Standon Farm
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Eastern of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement on the north eastern slope of Steeperton Tor
• Two round cairns on the northern slope of Metheral Hill
• Round cairn 140m WSW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Enclosed settlement 420m south of Doetor Farm
• Two stone hut circles 450m SSE of Ger Tor
• Two cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Bidlake Mill and leat
• Leawood Plantation barrow
• A stone hut circle 50m west of Western Red Lake
• Sourton Down Cross, 360m north east of Aliceford Farm
• Round cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Two circular cairns, an ovoid cairn and a ring cairn lying within an enclosure forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Stone hut circle 630m north-east of Ger Tor
• Two round cairns 540m ENE of Sourton Tors
• Deserted medieval settlement 750m south of White Hill summit
• Stone hut circle 420m south west of Lints Tor
• Ring cairn 120m west of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• An enclosure boundary wall, thirteen stone hut circles and a round cairn on Nattor Down and Hamlyn's Newtake
• Ring cairn 975m south of Sourton Tors
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Round cairn 765m south-west of Great Nodden
• Alluvial tin streamwork in Lydford Woods
• Round cairn and stone hut circle 950m south of Sourton Tors
• Stone hut circle settlement at Higher Tor
• Wayside cross at Durdon Cross
• Enclosure and unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 510m north of Deadlake Foot
• Hillfort and medieval settlement in South Longridge Wood
• Southern of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• A stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
• Ringwork, castle, town banks, site of Saxon town and defences
• Churchyard cross 4m south of Honeychurch church
• Enclosure, two stone hut circles and an alignment of upright stones 780m north west of Little Links Tor
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Observation Post 7
• Five stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke
• One of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• Okehampton Roman fort, fortlet and associated enclosures
• Round cairn 230m south-west of White Hill summit forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery
• An alluvial tin streamwork adjacent to the Brim Brook
• Stone hut circle settlement 580m north east of White Hill summit
• Churchyard cross 12m south of Sampford Courtenay church
• Taw River tin blowing mill, 840m south of Tawcroft
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• An enclosed prehistoric settlement 230m east of Higher Tor
• Bowl barrow on East Kimber Common, 670m west of Stoney
• A round cairn on Watchet Hill
• Northernmost stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
• Ring cairn 80m north-east of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• The southernmost of four cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Stone hut circle 610m west of Cawsand Beacon forming an outlying part of an enclosed stone hut circle settlement
• Sixty stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke
• A warren, two stone hut circle settlements, cairnfields and cairns at Ivy Tor, ESE of Belstone
• Tor cairn on High Willhays summit
• Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement 650m south east of Tawcroft
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 320m south east of Higher Tor
• Stone cross adjoining Fitz or Fice's Well
• Wheal Betsy pumping house
• Ring cairn 160m WNW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Wayside cross in the garden hedge of Southcott Cottage, at a crossroads called Southcott Cross
• Tinners' building 680m north east of Fur Tor
• An enclosed stone hut circle settlement, three round cairns and a length of reave 650m WSW of Ger Tor
• Ring cairn 450m south of Willsworthy Camp
• Cairn forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Length of boundary wall and seven stone hut circles forming part of a large enclosure north-east of Ger Tor
• Round cairn 750m NNW of East Okement Farm
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Observation Post 16 and flanking target butts
• A cairnfield, unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and boundary stone 380m south west of a ford on the Small Brook
• Round cairn on Hangingstone Hill
• Stone hut circle 610m ESE of Nodden Gate forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Stone hut circle settlement 330m south east of Great Nodden
• Wayside cross at Bulland Cross
• Village cross in Northlew, 40m south west of the church
• Round cairn and stone cist 310m south of Walla Brook
• A small stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
• Round cairn 610m north east of Great Nodden
• Nine Stones ring cairn on Belstone Common
• Bowl barrow 350m south of Broomhill
• Eighteen cairns, a length of bank and a recumbent stone forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Round cairn 340m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• A double stone hut circle and enclosure 280m south of Deadlake Foot
• Round cairn 700m south of Sourton Tors
• Round cairn on Standon Hill
• Ten cairns and a length of bank forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Linear and Curved Target Railways on F Range
• Meldon viaduct
• Two cairns forming the western edge of a cairnfield on the northern slope of White Hill
• Wayside cross at Eastcombe on the road between Durdon Cross and Eastcombe
• A cluster of five stone hut circles and associated boundary wall situated within a large enclosure 30m north-east of Ger Tor