Lords Meadow Stadium

Lords Meadow Stadium sits on the edge of Exeter and serves as home to Exeter City FC - a proper local football club with genuine roots in the community. On match days, the atmosphere here is electric; you'll get real supporters, not the corporate feel of bigger grounds. The stadium itself is modest by modern standards, which is frankly part of its charm. Capacity runs to about 4,000, so you're close enough to the action to hear the players shouting.

Football fans will absolutely get something from this. Match days are the obvious draw - atmosphere, a decent pint in the bars, the whole ritual of it. Even non-supporters might enjoy catching a lower-league match if you're timing your trip right; there's an unpretentious quality to watching football at this level that the Premier League has lost entirely.

If you're staying at Sunsets & Marshmallows Glamping just down the road, this is genuinely walkable for match days. No faff with parking if you time it properly. Outside of fixtures, the stadium isn't particularly worth a special trip - you can't wander round the pitch or take tours as far as I can tell, so it's purely for those planning to catch a game.

Check the fixture list well in advance. Tuesday night matches in October against lower-league opposition won't pack the house, but that's when you'll get the real local crowd rather than tourists. Worth timing your holiday around if football matters to you at all.