Might be a bit far but i found Dartmouth in Devon a lovely little place when i went, wish i could have stayed longer....there's also Brixham, Totnes, Newton Abbott in that vicinity which, again were all cracking little towns.

I'm researching this area whilst doing my family tree at the moment. My family moved from here to Hull to set up Hellyer Brothers the fishing fleet. Its looks a lovely little town. Just wished I'd known last year when we were down there. We enjoyed Salcombe in South Devon and Plymouth too.

I'll always remember going to Salcombe on holiday because we were there when Wigan beat Saints 65- 12 at Knowsley Road, 1997.

Brunel did the Tamar Bridge aswell as his other stuff.Its great down here, IMO you cant go wrong practically anywhere in Devon and Cornwall (i m not too keen on torquay though).Plymouth hoe and barbican areas are great places to be especially if the weathers right,history, boat trips to the dockyards plymouth gin museum ,pubs, food etc etc etc .lovely
Shame about Dawlish because that coast line on the train is lovely(should be the local and tourist line and a new inland line put in for access up the line and back down)
hope you enjoy where ever you end up though.

Try Ironbridge in Shropshire