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Grove Upholstery
Stuart Coote upholsters furniture from a workshop in a Georgian coachhouse at…
CultureDevonshire Fine Art
David and Karen Smith have run Devonshire Fine Art from 9 Church Street in…
CounterEndsleigh Gardens Nursery
Endsleigh Gardens Nursery grows plants on a five-acre site at Milton Abbot,…
LarderBeachwood Bakery
Julia Cotts opened Beachwood Bakery on Chagford's town square in 2020, baking…
RestHerton Guest House
Jan runs Herton Guest House from a 17th-century former farmhouse at Herton…
TableThe Old Farmhouse Kitchen and Tearoom
The tearoom operates from East Dodscott Farm at St Giles in the Wood, on the…
Grounds
14 Miles East
Sidmouth, ENG
An independent café at the seaward end of Fore Street, close to the seafront, serving breakfast and…
Coffee and Cream
Tavistock, ENG
A family-owned patisserie and coffee shop on Brook Street in Tavistock, run by Lynda Wallace and…
Coffee Factory
Axminster, ENG
Coffee Factory has roasted coffee at its premises on Shute Road near Axminster since 2009, using a…
Crankhouse Coffee
Clyst Honiton, ENG
Dave Stanton set up Crankhouse in 2014 — the name was his wife Becca's idea, and both are directors…
Crediton Coffee Company
Crediton, ENG
Small-batch coffee roaster and cafe in Crediton's Market Square, roasting Arabica beans on-site in…
Exe Coffee Roasters
Exeter, ENG
Exe Coffee Roasters runs its shop and roasting operation from 19 Heavitree Road, just outside…
Frittiscombe Flowers
Stokenham, ENG
Flower farm run by grower Sophie Lake at Lower Frittiscombe Farm near Stokenham in the South Hams,…
Fuelled by Caffeine
Bovey Tracey, ENG
Dan and Jo began Fuelled by Caffeine during the 2020 lockdowns by converting a retired horse…
No.1 Coffee
Okehampton, ENG
No.1 Coffee hand-roasts 100% Arabica beans from a shopfront at 16 Fore Street in Okehampton, on the…
Northam Coffee House
Northam, ENG
Small independent coffee shop on Fore Street in Northam, near Bideford, serving fresh coffee and…
One Market Street Cafe
Hatherleigh, ENG
Independent, dog-friendly cafe on Hatherleigh's Market Street run by Hannah and Tom, serving market…
Spill The Beans Cafe
Barnstaple, ENG
Family-run, retro-themed cafe on Tuly Street, just off Barnstaple's main shopping streets, operated…
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Alf Resco
Dartmouth, ENG
Peter and Kate Ryder opened their breakfast café on Lower Street on the first of April 1994, and it…
Cairney's Bistro
Crediton, ENG
Cairney's Bistro occupies a sixteenth-century building on East Street in Crediton, where chef Jim…
Coffee on the Square
Hartland, ENG
Café on the square in the North Devon village of Hartland serving cooked breakfasts, lunches and…
Darts Farm
Topsham, ENG
Ronald Dart started a pick-your-own on the fields outside Topsham in 1971; his three sons — Paul on…
Devon Coffee
Exeter, ENG
Independent coffee shop on Queen Street in central Exeter, identifiable by its bright orange…
Fletcher's
Plymouth, ENG
Fletcher Andrews opened his own room on Princess Street in 2018 with colleagues from the Treby…
Frou Frou Bistro
Tiverton, ENG
Frou Frou occupies a Grade II listed seventeenth-century building on Gold Street in Tiverton, run…
Gather
Totnes, ENG
Harrison Brockington opened Gather in 2019 with fellow chefs Declan Wiles and Oli Rosier, the three…
Giovanni & Luca
Ilfracombe, ENG
Giovanni & Luca is a family-run Italian restaurant on Wilder Road in Ilfracombe, opened in 2010 by…
Guardhouse Café
Brixham, ENG
Lucy and Alex have run the café in the 1795 guardhouse of Berry Head's Napoleonic fort since 2014,…
Lemon Jelli Bistro
Newton Abbot, ENG
Lemon Jelli Bistro has traded from 45 Queen Street in Newton Abbot since 2017, serving homemade…
No37 Bistro
Great Torrington, ENG
An independent bistro at 37 South Street in Great Torrington, trading as No 37 Bar & Bistro Ltd.…
Larder
Anton's Butchers
Colyton, ENG
Traditional butcher on Colyton's Market Place, run by Anton and Beaulah, selling fresh meat, own…
Ashburton Delicatessen
Ashburton, ENG
Ashburton Delicatessen is an independent deli on North Street in Ashburton, known for its sausage…
Beachwood Bakery
Chagford, ENG
Julia Cotts opened Beachwood Bakery on Chagford's town square in 2020, baking sourdough loaves,…
Ben's Farm Shop
Totnes, ENG
Ben Watson started with farm-raised sausages on Totnes market in 1983, and the family's shops —…
Besshill Farm Shop
Barnstaple, ENG
A farm shop at Arlington, near Barnstaple, selling beef and lamb reared on the same land alongside…
Boatyard Bakery
Exeter, ENG
Boatyard Bakery is a small bakery and cafe on Haven Road beside Exeter's historic canal basin,…
Country Cheeses
Tavistock, ENG
Gary and Elise Jungheim began selling farmhouse cheese from a stall in Tavistock's Pannier Market…
Cox Butchers of Crediton
Crediton, ENG
Trading as A J Cox Butchers, the shop has served Crediton's High Street for more than a century,…
Darts Farm
Topsham, ENG
Ronald Dart started a pick-your-own on the fields outside Topsham in 1971; his three sons — Paul on…
Farmer Luxtons
Okehampton, ENG
Farmer Luxtons trades from Stockley on the edge of Okehampton, where Stuart and Lynette Luxton,…
Fordmore Farm Shop
Cullompton, ENG
Tom and James Persey run this farm shop beside the Honiton road outside Cullompton, on land the…
Harvest Farm Shop
Okehampton, ENG
Martin Godfrey and Sara Melendro founded this organic farm shop in Okehampton's Red Lion Yard,…
Culture
Babbacombe Cliff Railway
Torquay, ENG
The funicular has run down the cliff from Babbacombe Downs to Oddicombe Beach since April 1926 —…
Barbican Theatre
Plymouth, ENG
An independent charity since 1980 — its registered name, Rent-a-Role Drama Service, gives away the…
Brixham Heritage Museum
Brixham, ENG
Brixham Heritage Museum occupies the town's former police station on New Road and is run largely by…
Bygones
Torquay, ENG
Ken Cuming's railway hobby outgrew the house: in 1986 he bought a 27-ton steam locomotive from…
Coldharbour Mill
Uffculme, ENG
Working wool mill in continuous production since 1797, using original water-powered and…
Dart Gallery
Dartmouth, ENG
Edward and Tom have owned Dart Gallery on Lower Street since 2014, after selling a gallery they had…
Devonshire Fine Art
Modbury, ENG
David and Karen Smith have run Devonshire Fine Art from 9 Church Street in Modbury since 1988,…
Docton Mill Gardens & Tea Rooms
Hartland, ENG
Lana and John Borrett run this garden and tea room built around a former corn mill near Hartland,…
Exeter Phoenix
Exeter, ENG
An arts centre run by an independent charity since its founding in 1984 — the city and county…
Green Hill Arts
Moretonhampstead, ENG
Green Hill Arts is a gallery, shop and artists' studios on Fore Street in Moretonhampstead, run by…
Hartland Abbey
Hartland, ENG
Henry VIII gave the dissolved abbey to William Abbott, his Sergeant of the Wine Cellar, in 1539,…
Ilfracombe Aquarium
Ilfracombe, ENG
Set in the Old Lifeboat House on Ilfracombe's pier since 2001, the aquarium follows the water home:…
Workshop
Alison West Ceramics
Chagford, ENG
Alison West runs her ceramics studio from the Stableyard in Chagford, on the edge of Dartmoor,…
Barking Kiln Pottery
Newton Abbot, ENG
Hand-building pottery studio run from Wolborough Hill in Newton Abbot by ceramicist Jacky, who…
Cliff Ellis Ceramics
Ashburton, ENG
Cliff Ellis has been potting for more than 30 years, a craft he took up after watching his father…
Fire Work Glass Studio
Diptford, near Totnes, ENG
Fire Work Glass Studio is a small family-run glassblowing workshop set in a garden studio at…
Grove Upholstery
Chagford, ENG
Stuart Coote upholsters furniture from a workshop in a Georgian coachhouse at Stable Yard in…
House of Marbles
Bovey Tracey, ENG
House of Marbles occupies a former pottery works on Pottery Road in Bovey Tracey, where the family…
MAKE Southwest
Bovey Tracey, ENG
The Devon Guild of Craftsmen — a charitable company since 1987 — took the name MAKE Southwest in…
Olive's Pots
Dartmouth, ENG
Olive's Pots occupies a single unit in Dartmouth Market Square, opened by potter Olivia in 2020…
Tamar Valley Potter
Bere Alston, ENG
Ruth Nevin throws and decorates ceramics at her studio at South Hooe, on the Tamar Valley border…
The Framing Lot
Dawlish, ENG
Family-run picture framing workshop on Dawlish Business Park, established in 1993 and run by Guild…
The Honiton Pottery Workshop
Honiton, ENG
Beth Simmons first came to the Honiton Pottery Workshop on the High Street for an evening class and…
VESSEL Ceramics
Moretonhampstead, ENG
VESSEL Ceramics is an open-access pottery studio on Court Street in Moretonhampstead, on the edge…
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Archway Bookshop
Axminster, ENG
Independent bookshop founded in Axminster in 1966, specialising in signed and special editions,…
ARTISAN the Makers Shop, Chagford
Chagford, ENG
ARTISAN the Makers Shop opened in August 2023 on Chagford's town square as a community interest…
Book Stop
Tavistock, ENG
Book Stop occupies 3 Market Street in Tavistock across two floors, stocking general fiction and…
Bowdens Nursery, Sticklepath
Sticklepath, Okehampton, ENG
Bowdens Nursery occupies a single site at Bowden Place in Sticklepath, on the northern edge of…
East Gate Bookshop
Totnes, ENG
Nigel Jones and his partner Claire opened East Gate Bookshop on Fore Street in December 2020, after…
Endsleigh Gardens Nursery
Milton Abbot, ENG
Endsleigh Gardens Nursery grows plants on a five-acre site at Milton Abbot, between Tavistock and…
Fields of Sidmouth
Sidmouth, ENG
A department store has traded from Market Place since 1809, beginning as a draper's, and it keeps…
Liznojan Bookshop
Tiverton, ENG
Liznojan is an independent bookshop and coffee shop on Gold Street in Tiverton, stocking new…
Paragon Books
Sidmouth, ENG
Paragon Books has traded from 38 High Street in Sidmouth since 1991, making it the town's…
Piccolo Plants Nursery
Branscombe, ENG
Small specialist nursery in the village of Branscombe run by Tom and Giulia, growing a wide range…
Quayside Bookshop
Teignmouth, ENG
Quayside Bookshop has traded from the same premises on Northumberland Place in Teignmouth for over…
Rival Records
Tavistock, ENG
John Chapple opened Rival Records in Tavistock in 2021, having done work experience at the original…
Cellar
Dartmoor Brewery
Princetown, ENG
Founded in 1994 at the back of the Prince of Wales in Princetown and moved into a purpose-built…
Hatherland Brewery
Tiverton, ENG
Small farm brewery at Hatherland Mill Farm in the Exe Valley near Tiverton, producing…
Honey Wood Orchard
Huntshaw, Great Torrington, ENG
Honey Wood Orchard sits at Huntshaw, a hamlet near Great Torrington, where Chris Tattershell's…
Lyme Bay Winery
Shute, ENG
On the Shute estate near Axminster since the early 1990s, Lyme Bay grew from a cider company into…
Otter Brewery
Luppitt, ENG
Independent brewery founded in 1990 by David and Mary Ann McCaig on the family's farm near Honiton,…
Quay Wines
Kingsbridge, ENG
Quay Wines is an independent wine merchant run by Simon and Jill Luscombe from a shop on Fore…
Ridge & Furrow Cider
Cullompton, ENG
Ridge & Furrow Cider makes small batches at Weekes Farm in Mutterton, near Cullompton, using…
Roam Brewing Co
Peverell, ENG
Roam Brewing Co is an independent brewery, bakery and taproom in Peverell, Plymouth, founded in…
Salcombe Distilling Co
Salcombe, ENG
Howard Davies and Angus Lugsdin met teaching sailing in Salcombe and set their distillery in a…
Sam's Cider (Winkleigh Cider Company)
Winkleigh, ENG
Family-run cider producer at Western Barn on the edge of Winkleigh, making Sam's Cider and Autumn…
Sandford Orchards
Crediton, ENG
Sandford Orchards presses cider at The Cider Works on Commonmarsh Lane in Crediton, a site the…
Sandridge Barton
Stoke Gabriel, ENG
The vineyard began on the Sharpham estate in 1981, planted by Maurice and Ruth Ash; four decades…
Snug
Beer Matters
Barnstaple, ENG
Beer Matters opened on Tuly Street in Barnstaple on 7 December 2022, run by Simon and Alison as a…
Crown & Anchor
Brixham, ENG
Erica and Georgie run this Grade II listed freehouse on Brixham's inner harbour quay, a single…
Dodbrooke Inn
Kingsbridge, ENG
The Dodbrooke Inn has stood at the top of Church Street in Kingsbridge for some two hundred years…
Fishermans Arms
Plymouth (Barbican), ENG
Free house near Plymouth's Barbican, reopened as an independent pub in 2014 by landlady Donna after…
Market Inn
Tavistock, ENG
The Market Inn stands on Whitchurch Road opposite the site of Tavistock's former cattle market,…
Salcombe Distilling Co
Salcombe, ENG
Howard Davies and Angus Lugsdin met teaching sailing in Salcombe and set their distillery in a…
Sandpiper Inn, Ilfracombe
Ilfracombe, ENG
The Sandpiper Inn occupies a mid-nineteenth-century building on Broad Street in Ilfracombe harbour,…
Sir Walter Raleigh Inn
East Budleigh, ENG
When the sixteenth-century thatched pub in Walter Raleigh's home village came up for sale, East…
Steel Brew Co
Plymouth, ENG
The brewery taproom in the Grade I listed Mills Bakery at Royal William Yard has run under its…
The Beer Engine
Newton St Cyres, ENG
Devon's first commercial brewpub: Peter Hawkesley set a three-barrel kit going in March 1983 in an…
The Blue Ball Inn
Sidford, ENG
The Blue Ball is a thatched inn at Stevens Cross in Sidford, on record since the fourteenth century…
The Bridford Inn
Bridford, ENG
The Bridford Inn is a family-run 17th-century freehouse in the Teign Valley village of Bridford, on…
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Alf Resco
Dartmouth, ENG
Peter and Kate Ryder opened their breakfast café on Lower Street on the first of April 1994, and it…
Ashburton Court Guest House
Ashburton, ENG
Ashburton Court is an independent guesthouse in a Georgian villa on East Street in Ashburton, run…
Bearslake Inn
Sourton, ENG
Thatched thirteenth-century longhouse on the edge of Dartmoor between Okehampton and Tavistock, run…
Berwick House
Sidmouth, ENG
Berwick House is an independently run bed and breakfast on Albert Terrace in Sidmouth, a short walk…
Bridge Guest House
Tiverton, ENG
A small guest house in a Victorian building on Angel Hill, overlooking the River Exe in central…
Collaven Manor
Sourton, ENG
Collaven Manor stands at Sourton, just outside Okehampton, a granite manor house dating to the…
Devon House Guest House
Paignton, ENG
Devon House Guest House is a family-run bed and breakfast in an extensively renovated Victorian…
Driftwood B&B, Brixham
Brixham, ENG
Driftwood B&B occupies a single townhouse at 11 Prospect Road in Brixham, refurbished throughout in…
Furzeleigh Mill
Buckfastleigh, ENG
Furzeleigh Mill is a country inn on Ashburton Road outside Buckfastleigh, built as a corn mill in…
Heron House Bed and Breakfast
Bampton, ENG
Adults-only bed and breakfast in an 18th-century stone house on Brook Street in Bampton, offering…
Herton Guest House
Barnstaple, ENG
Jan runs Herton Guest House from a 17th-century former farmhouse at Herton Farm, on the edge of…
The Bull Inn
Totnes, ENG
Geetie Singh-Watson — awarded an MBE in 2009 for services to the organic pub trade — opened her…
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