9 Best Activities In Newton Abbot

Chudleigh Lido and Bovey Tracey Swimming Pool are the two to look at here, and each is the sort of community pool where sessions are timetabled and space is finite, rather than a leisure centre you can wander into on a whim. Check session times and whether booking is needed before you drive out, especially during the summer holidays when local pools fill quickly and turn people away.

Devon Escape is the obvious one. A locked room, a time limit and no phones is more entertaining for a fourteen-year-old than anything you could suggest to their face. Insanity Gaming Arcade Newton Abbot is the lower-effort version for an afternoon that has already gone wrong. If they will come outdoors at all, River Dart Country Park gives them something more physical than a walk.

The moor is free to walk into and enormous, so the difficulty lies entirely in the route you pick rather than in the place itself. Choose a short circular walk from a car park, take considerably more food than seems reasonable, and accept that you will cover a fraction of the ground you would alone. Decoy Country Park is the gentler alternative if the moor feels like too much for the group you have.