Darts Farm

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Address
RSPB Darts Farm, Topsham Rd, Exeter EX3
Grid ref
SX977883

Located on the outskirts of Exeter, Darts Farm is home to a large variety of wildlife. These include flocks of linnets, fieldfares and redwings during the winter, dragonflies, skylarks and kingfishers in summer. There's also a popular shop and tearoom here, part of a larger shopping complex.

Plan your visit

Opening times

Open Monday to Saturday, 9am - 5.30pm, and on Sundays, 10am - 4.30pm.

Entrance charges

Free entrance to RSPB members
Yes
Adults
Free
Children
Free

Facilities

  • Visitor centre
  • Car park
  • Toilets
  • Accessible toilets
  • Baby changing
  • Pushchair friendly
  • Cafe
  • Binocular hire
  • Guided walks
  • Nature trails
  • Shop

Accessibility

How to get here

By train

Topsham. 20-minute walk, following signs to Exmouth.

By bus

The number 57 Exeter to Exmouth bus stops opposite Darts Farm.

By bike

Cycle Path Exeter to Topsham continues to Darts Farm.

By road

From M5 Motorway: Leave motorway at Junction 30 and follow signs to Exmouth. Once on the dual carriageway, 'Darts Farm Shopping Village' is signposted on a tourist brown sign. Go past the first entrance and enter the car park in through the second. The RSPB Shop is above the Cotswold Outdoor shop.

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What will the weather be like?

12 degrees, Sunny day

Contact Darts Farm

  • RSPB Darts Farm, Topsham Rd, Exeter EX3
  • 01392 879438

What will you see?

Our star species

Seasonal highlights

On the farm and ponds you'll see skylarks, fieldfares, linnets, goldfinches, greenfinches and chaffinches, mute swans, great spotted woodpeckers, sand martins, chiffchaffs, buzzards, swallows, kestrels, peregrines, sparrowhawks and kingfishers.

Around the farm and ponds, look for reed warblers, reed buntings, great and blue tits, greenfinches, pied wagtails, skylarks, buzzards, moorhens, whitethroats, kingfishers, willow and sedge warblers. On the wetlands, you might see lapwings and Canada geese.

Keep an eye out for buzzards, hobbies, wheatears, tits and finches, meadow pipits, stonechats, little grebes, brent geese and common sandpiper on the farmland and pond. Wigeons, teals, snipe, curlews, barnacle geese and green sandpipers feed in the wetlands.

Around the farm and ponds, you'll see flocks of finches, tits, fieldfares, song thrushes, blackbirds and redwings. Watch the wetlands for brent and Canada geese, teals, wigeons, black-tailed godwits, snipe, curlews and lapwings.

About Darts Farm

Habitat

On the outskirts of Exeter, Darts Farm is home to a large variety of birds, insects and other wildlife. Our shop here is part of a large shopping complex in beautiful farmland, with ponds and wetland areas.

Conservation

Our shop at Darts Farm overlooks the Clyst Valley towards RSPB Goosemoor, where we have recreated valuable saltmarsh and mudflat for waterbirds. 

Just beyond lies RSPB Bowling Green Marsh, which we manage as a vital roosting place for waterbirds such as avocets and black-tailed godwits around high tide.

Site information

On the outskirts of Exeter, Darts Farm is situated on farmland but surrounded by wetlands.

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