Things to do in East Devon
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Axe Valley Heritage Museum
Seaton
The museum concentrates on the lower Axe Valley and also includes the adjacent villages of Beer, Axmouth, Branscombe, Colyton and Colyford.
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Lyme Regis Museum
Lyme Regis
David Attenborough describes the Museum as "A delightful and remarkable museum, a jewel.
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Exmouth Museum registered charity 291311
EXMOUTH
"a little gem of a place" - Western Morning News Exmouth Museum was first opened in 1985 and is housed in a 19th century building which was the council stables together with the adjoining foreman's cottage.
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Fairlynch Museum
Budleigh Salterton
Fairlynch Museum and Arts Centre is one of the very few thatched museums in the UK.
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Coldharbour Mill Working Wool Museum
Cullompton
Coldharbour Mill, built between 1797 and 1799 as the first Spinning Mill in the South West, preserves a collection of Victorian spinning frames for the worsted process, and Hattersley looms are still in use to weave knitting yarns, tartan cloth, rugs and stair runners.
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Topsham Museum
Topsham
Topsham Museum is housed in one of a group of late 17th century buildings overlooking the Exe Estuary.
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Sidmouth Museum
Sidmouth
The Museum has two floors of displays and exhibits.
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Markers Cottage
Exeter
A fascinating medieval cob house, containing a cross-passage screen decorated with a painting of St Andrew.
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Whimple Heritage Centre
Whimple
The Whimple Heritage Centre is managed and maintained by an enthusiastic group of volunteers interested in Whimple's past and also its present.
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Axminster Heritage Centre
Axminster
Axminster Heritage Centre tells the story of Axminster and its surrounding villages from pre-history, through Roman times, as a busy agricultural market town post its 1210 charter and as an important brush making centre, notably for toothbrushes.
