Ashcombe
Ashcombe is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England, about eight miles south of the city of Exeter.
Ashcombe is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England, about eight miles south of the city of Exeter. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Kenton, Mamhead, Dawlish, Bishopsteignton and Chudleigh. In 2001 its population was 77, down from 125 in 1901.
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Worth seeing in and around Ashcombe
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Mamhead House
Mamhead House, Mamhead, Devon, is a country house dating from 1827. Its origins are older but the present building was constructed for Robert William Newman, an Exeter merchant, in 1827–1833 by Anthony Salvin.
2.9 km · Grade I listed building in Teignbridge, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Castle Dyke
Castle Dyke is an Iron Age hill fort situated between Chudleigh and Dawlish in Devon, England. The fort is situated on a hilltop at approximately 140 metres above sea level.
2.2 km · Iron Age hill fort situated between Chudleigh and Dawlish in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Luscombe Castle
Luscombe Castle is a country house situated near the resort town of Dawlish, in the county of Devon in England. Upon purchasing the land at Luscombe in 1797, Charles Hoare demolished the existing house and commissioned architects John Nash and Humphrey Repton to design a new house and gardens at the site.
3.8 km · Grade I listed English country house in Teignbridge, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Ugbrooke
Ugbrooke House is a stately home in the parish of Chudleigh, Devon, England, situated in a valley between Exeter and Newton Abbot. The home of the Clifford family, the house and grounds are available for guided tours in summer and as an event venue.
3.7 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Teignbridge, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ashcombe
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 90 km · Bristol (BRS), 104 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 236 km
- Cardiff → Ashcombe31 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £7–10
- Bristol → Ashcombe16 km · quickest by road, 44 min · £2–2.5
- London → Ashcombe35 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £4–5
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ashcombe
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ashcombe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextLand's End is not that far from Dawlish, and visiting it could be a day trip.
From Wikivoyage: Dawlish, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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