Quiet hilltop car park, youth noise
3 Jawbone Hill, TQ6
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A large car park at the old Jawbone Hill recycling site, 1/4 mile up a narrow no-through road from the main road. It is generally quiet overnight, although local youths briefly caused noise and left takeaway litter on one occasion. Dartmouth is reachable by a steep path taking about 20 minutes, with local footpaths, nearby viewpoints and a bus route serving Blackpool Sands, Torcross and Kingsbridge.
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Listing copied from our source, 53 days ago
This is great little park up. It’s very quiet. We were worried at first and 2 cars of local youths turned up playing music. However, they left after 1/2 hour and left a mess of take away carton. But it was very quiet all night. You can walk down to Dartmouth. It’s very steep and takes about 20 but took a little longer back up. There is an amazing view point there which is amazing at this park up.
Good place to stay, with access to Dartmouth via path down, also on bus route to Blackpool Sands, Torcross and Kingsbridge. Very quiet and a nice nature walk near by
Very convenient for Dartmouth and castle, eg. SW coast path - just follow the Silver Jubilee Way (obscure, overgrown old signpost on road). Very quiet apart from seagulls from 5am! Not the most pretty immediate countryside, as the council has allowed Jawbones Beacon Park to become overgrown and neglected and the local garage now use 80% of available car parking spaces. Rare find in S. Hams.
We stayed overnight here. Had a peaceful nights sleep. The car park is quite big, the mechanics next to the car park use it to store vehicles, so it was almost full all night. Quite a lot of noise in the morning which wasn’t an issue for us. Really good 3G/4G signal on EE & o2 (looks like there’s a mast next to the car park?). Fairly level.
