Beesands
Beesands is a small settlement located midway between Hallsands and Torcross on the coast of Start Bay in South Devon, England.
Beesands is a small settlement located midway between Hallsands and Torcross on the coast of Start Bay in South Devon, England. It is best known as a tourist destination. However, it is still a fishing village that concentrates mainly on crab and lobster fishing through Britannia Fisheries. There is an Anglican chapel dedicated to St Andrew in the village. Behind the beach, north of the settlement, is a freshwater lake known as Widdecombe Ley, smaller but similar in ecology to Slapton Ley about a 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) to the north.
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Worth seeing in and around Beesands
2 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.
- 01Start Point Lighthouse
Start Point Lighthouse was built in 1836 to protect shipping off Start Point, Devon, England. Open to the public in summer months, it is owned and operated by Trinity House.
3.6 km · lighthouse in Stokenham, South Hams, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Slapton Ley
Slapton Ley is a lake on the south coast of Devon, England, separated from Start Bay by a shingle beach, known as Slapton Sands. Slapton Ley is the largest natural freshwater lake in south-west England being 1.5 miles long and has two sections; the Lower Ley and the Higher Ley.
3.3 km · lake on the south coast of Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Beesands
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 129 km · Bristol (BRS), 142 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 208 km
- Cardiff → Beesands141 km · quickest by road, 4h 3m · £22–30
- Bristol → Beesands153 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £18–24
- London → Beesands284 km · quickest by road, 5h 54m · £32–42
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No local-transport research exists yet for Beesands
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 Beesands. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou can then travel the last few miles through breathtaking scenery to Kingswear before crossing the Dart on one of the ferries.
- Get aroundThe town is too small for a traveller to need a bus, by foot is the best way There is a ferry between the two sides of the valley, there is a small charge for crossing
From Wikivoyage: Dartmouth (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Beesands
- Chivelstonevillage in Devon, England, UK3.8 km
- Start Pointpromontory in the South Hams district in Devon, England3.8 km
- Chillingtonvillage in Devon, United Kingdom3.1 km
- Hallsandsvillage in Devon, England, UK1.8 km
- Fordhamlet in Chivelstone, South Hams, Devon, England3.1 km
- Torcrossvillage in Devon, England, UK1.5 km