Short answer: Brixham's breakwater is half a mile of flat, level walkway out into the bay — the best viewing platform on this coast, and free. Berry Head gives you the length of Tor Bay from high ground.
Half a mile of flat, level walkway built in the 1840s to take the weather, with benches along it, reaching out into the bay. It is free, it is easy going for anyone with mobility difficulties, and it puts you out over the water looking back at the town.
In a rough sea it is not the place to be. Check the conditions — this is an exposed structure and the waves come over it.
Brixham Town FC Bonfire Night — Saturday 7 November. Brixham spreads it over a month: fireworks at Halloween, fireworks on the Saturday after Bonfire Night, then the harbour lanterns and the Bay of Lights. The harbour events are the ones with no ticket.
Dates and times come from the organisers' own listings and the regional what's-on pages, checked in late October. Small displays are run by volunteers and can move or sell out, so confirm with the organiser before you travel — particularly for anything ticketed.
Going further afield, or the local one does not suit? Every confirmed firework display in Devon is on one page here, listed by date.
Berry Head, a free nature reserve on the headland, gives you the length of Tor Bay from high ground behind Napoleonic fort walls. You can see Torquay and Paignton from there as well as Brixham, which on a night when several towns are letting off fireworks is worth knowing.
The fleet lands through the winter, which means the harbour is busy at hours when nowhere else is and the seafood is unchanged.
Harbour parking is tight year-round but far easier in November. Berry Head has its own car park and the walk down into town afterwards is pleasant.
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