National Trust: Greenway

Beautiful grounds and a amazing staff. Loved walking the gardens and down to the boathouse!

Visited Greenway earlier this year with a group of friends and enjoyed the experience of the actual visit and the one hour journey to and from the attraction by ferry from Dartmoor. Reaching the house once leaving the ferry is a bit of a trek uphill so make sure you have comfortable walking shoes on. Entry price is around £9 each but they do pretty much guilt you into making a 10% donation to Gift Aid (which is added to the entry price without asking and most people are too embarrassed to ask for this to be removed). The staff also try to sell you National Trust membership which is rather annoying as this really slows down the queue to get in. Once inside you can get some food in the café/​restaurant although the prices are quite steep and the queues and service are horrendously slow.
You can explore the grounds at your leisure and includes lovely views which you can imagine enthralled Agatha Christie as a child.
Entering Greenway House is a lovely experience with the tour guides telling you that you enter as a visitor through the front door and leave via the back door as a friend of the family. Each room in the house can be explored at your own pace. There are items from Agatha Christie’s childhood and later life in every room from dolls to books to diaries to items she collected and her piano and music that she wrote. You are not allowed to take photos inside the house. All in all a visit to the house shouldn’t take longer than 2 – 3 hours maximum.
A worthwhile experience for fans of Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christies house and gardens beside the river Dart. Can get there by road or by sweet little ferry from Dittisham. The gardens are lovely and will be great when the house opens next year. There’s a shop and small art gallery, lovely spot and well worth a wander.