- Hollicombe Beach – nice sunny, sandy beach - shallow sloping with rock pools for exploring. Take what you need, as there are no facilities to buy anything.
- Preston Sands – very much the safe family beach, with beach huts,café, toilets and a green.
- Paignton Beach – lively and buzzing with its Pier, beach take-away huts,crazy golf and amusements. A safe, sandy beach backed by a green – often the site for the fairground or fetes.
- Paignton Pier – built by the Victorians, now packed full of amusement machines and bingo
- Paignton Harbour – small crafts and pleasure boats – a good place to sit and watch others doing things
- Fairy Cove – reached by steps from the West arm of the Harbour this pretty little cove is often overlooked. A pebble beach, with rock pools at low tide - not very good for bathing but a lovely spot to sit and gaze out to sea
- Goodrington & Youngs Park – sandy beaches, boat lake, beach huts,amusements, Quaywest Water Park, pub – very much the safe, family fun, traditional seaside beach
- Paignton Town Centre – browse the “grockle” shops (the local name for holiday-makers) at the bottom end, or make your way up to Palace Avenue for more refined shopping!
- Oldway Mansion – built by Isaac Merritt Singer (Singer sewing machines) much of it is given over to Civic Offices of Torbay Council, but the main staircase, ballroom and grounds are open to the public and are well worth a visit
- Paignton to Dartmouth Steam Railway – a lovely trail along the coast, over the viaduct at Broadsands, through Devonshire countryside to Kingswear on the River Dart
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