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.

Cities to visit near Drake Circus include Exeter.

Don't miss Exeter Cathedral, St Mary Steps, and St Stephen's Church - Exeter's historic buildings if visiting the area around Drake Circus.

Starcross, Lynton and Lynmouth, Littleham, Otterton, Branscombe, Beer, and Hope Cove are great places to visit near Drake Circus if you like villages.

Exeter Canal, and Grand Western Canal at Tiverton are some of Drake Circus best canals to visit near Drake Circus.

The area around Drake Circus's best rivers and streams can be found at East Lyn River.

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

Valley of Rocks is one of Drake Circus's best, nearby geological features to visit in Drake Circus.

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

Don't miss Dartmoor's hiking areas if visiting the area around Drake Circus.

There are a several good nature reserves in the area around Drake Circus like Dartmoor.

There are a several good towns in the Drake Circus area like Dartmouth, Tiverton, Crediton, Topsham, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, and Seaton.

Bicton Park is a great place to visit close to Drake Circus if you like parks.

Places near Drake Circus feature a number of interesting airports including Exeter Airport.

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

There are a number of ruins near to Drake Circus including Berry Pomeroy Castle.

Drake Circus History

There are some historic monuments around Drake Circus:

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