Folly Gate is a Village in the county of Devon.

Folly Gate postcode: EX20 3AD

Retail in Folly Gate

There are great places to visit near Folly Gate 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.

Folly Gate is near some unmissable cities like Exeter,

There are a several good historic buildings in the Folly Gate area like Exeter Cathedral, St Mary Steps, and St Stephen's Church - Exeter.

The area around Folly Gate boasts some of the best villages including Starcross, Lynton and Lynmouth, Littleham, Otterton, Branscombe, Beer, and Hope Cove.

Canals to visit near Folly Gate include Exeter Canal, and Grand Western Canal at Tiverton.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Folly Gate include East Lyn River.

Folly Gate has some unmissable beaches nearby like Blacklands Beach, Branscombe Beach, and Hope Cove.

Geological Features to visit near Folly Gate include Valley of Rocks.

SSSIs to visit near Folly Gate include Dartmoor.

Folly Gate is near some unmissable hiking areas like Dartmoor,

Dartmoor is a great place to visit close to Folly Gate if you like nature reserves.

The area around Folly Gate boasts some of the best towns including Dartmouth, Tiverton, Crediton, Topsham, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, and Seaton.

There are a number of parks near to Folly Gate including Bicton Park.

Exeter Airport is one of Folly Gate's best, nearby airports to visit in Folly Gate.

There are a number of castles near to Folly Gate including Berry Pomeroy Castle.

Ruins to visit near Folly Gate include Berry Pomeroy Castle.

Folly Gate History

There are some historic monuments around Folly Gate:

• Icework at Sourton Tors
• Okehampton Roman fort, fortlet and associated enclosures
• Ring cairn 660m north west of Little Links Tor
• Round cairn on Watern Tor
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 770m NNW of Little Links Tor
• Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Wayside cross in the garden hedge of Southcott Cottage, at a crossroads called Southcott Cross
• Tinners' building 90m north east of the confluence of the Brim Brook and West Okement River
• Round cairn 700m south-west of Great Nodden
• Stone hut circle 420m south west of Lints Tor
• Okehampton Castle: a motte and bailey castle with associated earthworks north of the West Okement River.
• 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 on Cosdon Hill, 1010m north of Cosdon Beacon
• Deserted medieval site NW of Okehampton camp
• Stone hut circle, cairns and irregular aggregate field system 850m SSE of Sourton Tors
• Camp SE of Okehampton
• Round cairn 530m north east of Gartaven Ford
• Stone hut circle 370m south east of Great Nodden forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• A warren, two stone hut circle settlements, cairnfields and cairns at Ivy Tor, ESE of Belstone
• Round cairn 750m NNW of East Okement Farm
• Round cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Taw River tin blowing mill, 840m south of Tawcroft
• A cairnfield, unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and boundary stone 380m south west of a ford on the Small Brook
• Wayside cross at Bulland Cross
• Tor cairn surrounding Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Guide post at Place Cross
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Tor cairn 180m north of High Willhays summit
• Churchyard cross 12m south of Sampford Courtenay church
• Round cairn 765m south-west of Great Nodden
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement on the north eastern slope of Steeperton Tor
• Seven cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Lake Down cairnfield 810m ESE and 780m east of Lake Viaduct
• Ring cairn on Great Nodden summit
• Round cairn 700m south of Sourton Tors
• Stone hut circle settlement, cairnfield and field system 580m north east of Gartaven Ford
• Wayside cross in Sampford Courtenay village 55m NNW of Cherrywell Cottages
• Ring cairn 120m west of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Three cairns forming the westernmost part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Wayside cross at Eastcombe on the road between Durdon Cross and Eastcombe
• Round cairn 470m south east of Sourton Tors
• Round cairn on Black Down 410m south west of Anthony Stile
• Round cairn 610m north east of Great Nodden
• Tor cairn on High Willhays summit
• Two round cairns 540m ENE of Sourton Tors
• Churchyard cross 4m south of Honeychurch church
• Ring cairn 230m south east of Cullever Steps
• Deserted medieval site 1/4 mile (400m) W of Okehampton camp
• Stone cross adjoining Fitz or Fice's Well
• Nine Stones ring cairn on Belstone Common
• Round cairn 140m WSW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Bowl barrow on Wadland Down
• Stone hut circle 400m south east of Great Nodden forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Round cairn and shelter 140m north west of Yes Tor summit
• Agglomerate enclosure and ten stone hut circles 500m west of Cawsand Beacon
• Westernmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Round cairn on the summit of Little Hound Tor
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Ring cairn 140m north east of Cawsand Beacon forming part of a cairn cemetery on the summit of Cawsand Hill
• Round cairn and enclosure 930m south of Hound Tor
• Wayside cross at Trecott beside Wellsprings Lane
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Stone hut circle 610m west of Cawsand Beacon forming an outlying part of an enclosed stone hut circle settlement
• Civil War redoubt 750m south east of East Linnacombe
• North easternmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Round cairn 550m SSE of Longstone Hill summit
• Two round cairns on the northern slope of Metheral Hill
• Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Experimental Parapets and Redoubt
• Round cairn 50m north west of Yes Tor summit
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• A round cairn 190m north east of Cawsand Beacon forming part of a cairn cemetery on the summit of Cawsand Hill
• Cawsand Beacon, a round cairn, a ring cairn, a stone building and five post-medieval shelters on the summit of Cawsand Hill
• Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Ring cairn 160m WNW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Linear and Curved Target Railways on F Range
• Round cairn 250m south east of Winter Tor
• Eighteen cairns, a length of bank and a recumbent stone forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Deserted medieval site N of Okehampton camp
• Two partially enclosed stone hut circle settlements and a round cairn on the eastern slope of Oke Tor
• Two circular cairns, an ovoid cairn and a ring cairn lying within an enclosure forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Meldon viaduct
• Wayside cross at crossroads 120m NNW of St Andrew's Church
• Stone hut circle settlement and post-medieval shelter 990m north east of Hawthorn Clitter, 1030m east of The Thirlstone
• Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement 650m south east of Tawcroft
• Court Castle
• A prehistoric settlement complex, length of reave, tin streamwork and stamping mill on the western slopes of Cosdon Hill
• Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement 290m north west of Lints Tor
• Stone circle, cairn alignment, cider millstone and boundary ditch 410m south east of Sourton Tors
• Sourton Down Cross, 360m north east of Aliceford Farm
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Stone hut circle settlement 330m south east of Great Nodden
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Boundary stone 110m north west of St Mary's Church
• Cairnfield, irregular aggregate field system, a ring cairn and three round cairns 800m and 920m south of Moorgate Farm
• Round cairn and cist on Black Down 1.6km east of Higher Bowden
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Wayside cross at junction between Victoria Road and Park Road, east of Hatherleigh
• Platform cairn 30m north west of Fordsland Ledge
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 320m south east of Higher Tor
• Ring cairn 975m south of Sourton Tors
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Village cross in Northlew, 40m south west of the church
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Bowl barrow 350m south of Broomhill
• Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• An alluvial tin streamwork adjacent to the Brim Brook
• Croft Castle
• An unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 1.1km south east of Gartaven Ford, south west of Rippator
• Two round cairns 715m south-west of Great Nodden
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Observation Post 16 and flanking target butts
• Round cairn and stone hut circle 950m south of Sourton Tors
• Stone circle and cairn 330m south of Little Hound Tor
• Two stone hut circles 850m WSW of the confluence of Gallaven Brook and Walla Brook, 1045m north east of the Thirlstone
• Wayside cross at Durdon Cross
• Enclosure, two stone hut circles and an alignment of upright stones 780m north west of Little Links Tor
• Leawood Plantation barrow
• Stone hut circle settlement at Higher Tor
• Cairn and cist forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Southernmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Cairnfield, cairn and a length of the Taw Marsh Reave 830m ESE of Moorland House
• Ten cairns and a length of bank forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Round cairn 80m SSW of White Moor stone circle
• A round cairn on Watchet Hill
• Two round cairns 840m south west of Great Nodden
• Round cairn 80m south west of Little Hound Tor summit
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• White Moor Stone
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Tor cairn 70m WNW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Round cairn 270m west of Great Nodden
• Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Coaxial field system, associated and later remains at Throwleigh Common and Kennon Hill
• A platform cairn 240m NNE of Cawsand Beacon forming part of a cairn cemetery on the summit of Cawsand Hill
• Agglomerate enclosure and 15 stone hut circles 560m west of Cawsand Beacon
• Ring cairn 510m south west of Great Nodden
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Observation Post 7
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Stone hut circle lying south of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Observation Post 6 and Incline Target Carrier Railway
• Deserted medieval site 1/2 mile (810m) W of Okehampton camp
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• St John's Holy Well
• Two stone hut circles and a field 340m south west of Lints Tor
• An enclosed prehistoric settlement 230m east of Higher Tor