Barnstaple in General

I have lived and grown up in North Devon all of my life. Barnstaple is my nearest, "proper town." I went to college here, and I want to let you know about it, from a sort of insiders perspective. I doubt you would come to Barnstaple, without good reason, but if you do however, find yourself in North Devon, then it's probably a good place to visit. As far as shopping goes, it's nothing special. It has a main high street, with most of the well known names that you would expect any fair sized town to have. For example, places like; M and S, Debenhams, BHS, New look, Top Shop etc... I personally feel that some of the more ...  Read the complete review

I want to tell you about Barnstaple in North Devon and some of the lovely surrounding areas. I shall include some good things to see and do, where I think it is good to stay and why I love living here. I am a thirty something married Mum of two who grew up here and has thoroughly explored the area through several different periods of time in her life. So where is it and what's it like? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Often known as the cul-de-sac of the South West, travelling to Barnstaple is most usually by the M5 to Jct 27 and the along A361 for most people heading to the south west. It is a cul-de-sac because for miles around there is nothing ...  Read the complete review

Barnstaple is quite a small town in North Devon. The town center has all of the main high street shops and also has a small indoor shopping centre called The Green Lanes. There is also an indoor market which is held every wednesday and saturday which has a wide variety of stores rangeing from antiques to pet accesseries. Running alongside the market there is butchers row which has several butchers, fish mongers and veg shops. Barnstaple has a good night life for a small town it has traditional old pubs such as the cork and bottle at the end of the high street and the 3 tons in the middle of the high street it also has quite a few clubs all within walking distance of each ...  Read the complete review

Barnstaple is one of the main towns in Devon. I lived there for 19years and plan to move back there in the next year. I think it's a lovely place to live. I have to admit it's not brilliant for shopping but you have most of the well known shops like Woolworths, new look, burtons, top shop and many more. Also there is a train station there so if you do want to go somewhere for a bit better shopping you can get the train to Exeter as it's only an hour train ride away. Most of the neighbouring villages go to Barnstaple to do there shopping and for a night out i.e. Braunton, Combe martin, Ilfracombe. The night life is ok obviously not as good as a city but you can ...  Read the complete review

I happen to live in this town so you can get the insiders view of Barnstaple! If you don’t know where Barnstaple is (and I doubt you would have reason to) then it is on the North Devon coast down in a pretty straight line from Swansea across the Severn estuary. Barnstaple is not that big – around 30,000 people max – but it is the main market town of the area and the biggest urban development until you get to Exeter. Facilities As I said Barnstaple is the market town of the area so most national shops have a store here – WH Smiths, Woolworths, Next, and on the outskirts Tesco, Sainsburys, Comet, Staples and so on. There are also ...  Read the complete review