What to do and see in Okehampton, England: The Best Things to do Good for Kids

We specialise in family cycle hire, providing quality bikes, friendly service and helpful advice. We're really passionate about all things bike and we want to pass on our love of cycling to you. At our centre we have everything you need for the perfect day out cycling including Hamax child seats, Burley trailers, tags and sit up and beg bikes we even have a trailer you can hire for your dog!

An outdoor activity centre offering up to 20 different adventure activities on Dartmoor. Suitable for groups, families or individuals looking for a fun day out. You and your fellow adventurers can have a go at mountain boarding, archery and scaling the climbing wall or ropes, with watersports including surfing, gorge scrambling, kayaking and canoeing on offer at the hostel’s private lake; true headers for heights can also have a go at the Big Oke Abseil. This small family run activity centre on the edge of Dartmoor has all sorts of outdoor adventures for all ages from 5 upwards. Birthday party, Stag and hen parties all catered for, and we even have costumes for that great picture to remember a special day. Skills courses also available, such as BCU 1 star kayaking and NNAS Navigation courses. Training to work in the outdoor industry is possible, with our activity trainees, who undertake their apprenticeships run through Exeter College. We usually take 4-6 apprentices each year.

Trapped Escape Rooms... The Bletchley Blueprints are missing! Step back in time to 1942… Alastair Dennington the renowned cryptologist needs your help! Working for a secret government department on a small project to crack the ENIGMA machine, he needs you to collect the blueprints from his private residence in Devon. The documents are hidden in the flat somewhere behind a series of cryptic puzzles for you to solve. They must be found before they fall into the hands of the enemy. Get the plans and key, get out as soon as you can. Templars the Secret Service A rogue agent is destroying the secret service from within, you must delve deep into the world of espionage to expose the perpetrator, your cover is an unassuming tailors shop but all is not what it seems… Through a series of puzzles and tasks, you must uncover hidden files which pertain to the agent’s identity, be quick – intelligence has informed you that the agent will return in 60 minutes!

The remains of the largest castle in Devon, in a stunning setting on a wooded spur above the rushing River Okement. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest as a motte and bailey castle with a stone keep, it was converted into a sumptuous residence in the 14th century by Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon, much of whose work survives. After the last Courtenay owner fell foul of Henry VIII in 1538, it declined into an allegedly haunted ruin.

New Carlton is a 3 screen cinema. Part of the Merlin Cinemas Group. Blockbusters and events on the big screen! Snacks and licensed for alcohol in the auditoria.