Wembury is a village on the south coast of Devon, England, very close to Plymouth Sound.

The National Trust has taken an active role in maintaining the scenic and historic characteristics of the village and its surrounding area The beach is well known for its surfing and rock pooling.

[2] Wembury was visited by Mesolithic man as evidenced by flint implements found on local sites.

The name Wembury may derive from a place name containing the name Woden,[3][4][5] and John Mitchell Kemble notes that it was called Wódnesbeorh.

Wembury House survives as an elegant late Georgian mansion, originally an exceptionally grand Elizabethan house built by the lawyer Sir John Hele (c.1541–1608) a Member of Parliament for Exeter and Recorder of Exeter (1592–1605).

[8] The surviving house on the site was built in the early 19th century and rebuilt by Major Edmund Lockyer.

[10] After his internment on the island he remained there paying his rent by supplying rabbits for the Manor House table.

A watercolour of about 1814 in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin is entitled The Mew Stone, at the Entrance of Plymouth Sound, Devonshire.

[13] A further Turner painting that had been identified as the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth was re catalogued as The Mewstone when it was auctioned by Christie's in 2008.