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Bickley Mill, TheLocal AttractionsCompton CastleA fortified house of the 14th to 16th centuries, Compton has been the home of the Gilbert family for 600 years. The Great Kitchen still has its bread ovens and knife-sharpening marks, and the withdrawing room has squints through which occupants could watc Distance: 1.33 Miles Bradley Manor A National Trust property of 70 acres, the 15th-century house and chapel are surrounded by woodland. The River Lemon and a millstream flow through the estate. Distance: 2.60 Miles Torre Abbey Historic House & Gallery The Abbey was founded in 1196 as a monastery and later adapted as a country house. It contains mementoes of crime writer Agatha Christie, paintings, sculpture, antiques, and Torquay terracotta pottery. The medieval monastic remains, which include the grea Distance: 3.25 Miles Tuckers Maltings The only working Malthouse in England open to the public, producing malt from barley for over 30 West Country breweries. Learn all about the process of malting - and taste the end product at the in-house brewery. Guided tours last an hour. Distance: 2.78 Miles Hedgehog Hospital at Prickly Ball Farm See, touch and learn all about this wild animal. In mid-season see baby hedgehogs bottle feeding. Find out how to encourage hedgehogs into your garden and how they are put back into the wild. The Hospital cares for sick or injured small mammals and birds and there is a large hedgehog friendly garden where the hogs can spend time getting used to their natural environment before being released back into the wild. There is also a hedgehog maze, a childrens play area, a tractor, a cafe and picnic area and a gift shop which sells hedgehog friendly plants and homes for hedgehogs, bats, owls, ladybirds and frogs. Support the Hedgehog hospital by adopting one of their injured animals Distance: 1.92 Miles Newton Abbot Town & Great Western Railway Museum Distance: 2.68 Miles Bradley Distance: 2.59 Miles Compton Castle Distance: 1.34 Miles Newton Abbot Train Station Distance: 2.66 Miles Torre Train Station Distance: 2.76 Miles |
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