[3] The parish church of St Martin dates in part from the late 13th or early 14th century and is Grade II* listed.
St Martin's churchyard once had two mature Irish Yew Trees, but one was lost in the winter storms of 2021.
[6] The Beacon Roman fortlet, above the coast to the north west of the village, was occupied for a short time in the first century AD and was excavated in the 1960s.
[citation needed] Hilda Doolittle and her husband Richard Aldington moved into the Martinhoe School House in 1916[9] and she wrote many of her poems and essays there.
[14] The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust operates narrow gauge trains over one mile of track between the station and Killington Lane.
Hollow Brook (or Hollowbrook) Waterfall, that can be seen from the South West Coast Path, which drops to the sea due north of the village, is claimed to be "the westcountry's [sic] highest coastal waterfall, and one of the highest in Britain", dropping 210 metres (690 ft) in a series of falls including two of 50 metres (160 ft), over 400 metres (1,300 ft) horizontal distance.