Short answer: Yes, Berry Head is free to walk. It is a nature reserve on a headland above Brixham with Napoleonic fort ruins, Britain's shortest lighthouse and the Guardhouse Café, which reviewers rate as highly as the reserve itself.
Yes. Berry Head is free to enter and free to walk. There is a car park, and depending on when you go there may be a parking charge, but the reserve itself costs nothing.
It is the best free thing to do in Brixham and it works in most weather — in a big swell the sea below the cliffs is dramatic, and you are watching from high ground behind fort walls rather than at sea level.
Dog friendly, including the café. The clifftop paths are open and grassy, so it is an easy walk with a dog on a lead.
The breakwater — half a mile of flat, level walkway out to a lighthouse, built in the 1840s to take the weather, with benches along it and seals close in. It is genuinely easy going for anyone with mobility difficulties, and it is free.
Harbour parking in Brixham is tight all year. If the harbour is full, Berry Head's own car park is often the better bet and the walk back down into town is pleasant.
St Mary's Bay has free parking but over a hundred steps down. Man Sands is a longer expedition on rough ground — better left for a dry day.
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