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Ellacombe, Torquay — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Ellacombe is a district of Torquay in Devon, with Kents Cavern, Torquay Museum and a long column of parish churches among its addresses.
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Kents Cavern, Torquay Museum and Living Coasts are all set against Ellacombe in the record, which gives the district more to walk to than a bed alone would suggest. The Real Crime Museum joins them. Belvedere House Hotel Braddons Hill House is the one lodging name on the list.
Torquay carries the rest of the supply, with Electric House, The Old Sessions House and the Parish Church of St Matthias standing on the Ellacombe side.
About Ellacombe
What are the main landmarks in Ellacombe?
Caves, churches and museums. Kents Cavern heads the register, with Torquay Museum, Living Coasts and The Real Crime Museum on the same visitor side and the prehistoric field system at Walls Hill listed with them. Parish churches run to a long column: the Parish Church of St John the Evangelist, the Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, the Parish Church of Christ Church, the Parish Church of St Matthias and the Parish Church of St Luke.
Riviera Life Church, Unity Church and the Former Church of St Andrew complete that side.
What is the history of Ellacombe?
A shelter still stands here. Ellacombe Primary school keeps the only fully standing World War II air raid shelter left in Torquay, which is the district's clearest link to a dated event. Older ground shows at Walls Hill, where a prehistoric field system survives.
Kents Cavern, The Old Sessions House and the Former Church of St Andrew carry the rest of the district's past, none of them dated in the record.
Where is Ellacombe?
Ellacombe is a district of Torquay in Devon, holding Kents Cavern and the prehistoric field system at Walls Hill among its named ground.
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Updated September 2026