Berry Head Country Park is Torbay's most important heritage and wildlife site. It is the main recreation area for the town of Brixham . Certain areas of the site are kept wild and remote so that wildlife can exist undisturbed. Programmes of walks and interpretation are organised to let people know about the conservation importance of the site. Live pictures of the guillemots are relayed to the Visitor Centre and staff can zoom in on individual birds to see them feeding their young, or to record their first leap into the sea. A greater horseshoe bat colony is based in the old quarry. This species of bat is declining at an alarming rate across the country and so each colony is carefully monitored. Greater horseshoes depend on traditional farmland and especially cattle-grazed pasture - because they love to eat dung-beetles, and dung-beetles love cow-pats!

Even without all the wildlife a visit to Berry Head should be on everyone’s list. It has the atmospheric remains of three Napoleonic forts built to guard this strategic Headland, some interesting navigation kit (any airline pilot will tell you that Berry Head is a key international flight navigation point) and absolutely stunning views across Tor Bay to the north and Start Bay to the Southwest.

It’s lighthouse is something of a record breaker as it is said to be the highest – over 200 feet above sea level, the lowest – the light is only 6 feet over the ground, and the smallest in Britain but with a beam that can be seen twenty miles away.