I love visiting Dartmouth, especially on Market day or in the sunshine! The Market is every saturday morning and is very popular.

As other people have mentioned, parking in dartmouth can be difficult but we've never experienced any problems, for events such as the dartmouth regatta you cannot drive into dartmouth and will need to get the park and ride in which is just up the hill from dartmouth (by sainsburys).

From Dartmouth you can take the ferry across the river and catch the steam train which is always fun to do. The shops is Dartmouth are very "sailing type shops" such as musto, Crew clothing etc... there are lovely coffee shops and restaurants around dartmouth and of course you can have the gorgeous salcombe dairy ice cream on the harbour front.

Dartmouth itself is very clean and tidy ( I think the seagulls help with that) and is beautiful in the summer. The downside to dartmouth is the hill you have to go up to get back out (towards totnes) and some cars, well mine, really struggle with going up the hill and get over taken by buses.