Bere Alston
Bere Alston is a historic village on the Bere Peninsula in West Devon, England, situated between the rivers Tamar and Tavy within the Tamar Valley National Landscape.
Bere Alston is a historic village on the Bere Peninsula in West Devon, England, situated between the rivers Tamar and Tavy within the Tamar Valley National Landscape. Historically associated with silver and lead mining, the village later developed through market gardening and railway transport, and was formerly a parliamentary borough returning two Members of Parliament until the Reform Act 1832. The village forms part of the civil parish of Bere Ferrers and had a population of 2,259 at the 2021 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Bere Alston
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.
- 01Cotehele
Cotehele is a medieval house with Tudor additions, situated in the parish of Calstock in the east of Cornwall, England, and now belonging to the National Trust. It is a rambling granite and slate-stone manor house on the banks of the River Tamar that has been little changed over five centuries.
2.3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Cotehele clock
The Cotehele clock is situated at Cotehele House, Calstock, Cornwall. It is the earliest turret clock in the United Kingdom still working in an unaltered state and in its original position.
2.3 km · medieval clock in Cotehele House, Calstock, Cornwall · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Andrew, Calstock
St Andrew's is the Anglican parish church of Calstock in Cornwall and dates to the 14th century. It is a Grade I listed building.
2.1 km · 14th century Anglican parish church of Calstock in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Pentillie
Pentillie Castle is a grade II* listed country house and estate on the bank of the River Tamar in Paynters Cross, near to St Mellion, in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. The secular parts of the nearby village of St Dominick once belonged to the estate.
4 km · Country house in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bere Alston
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 118 km · Bristol (BRS), 144 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 227 km
- Stations
- Bere Ferrers railway station, 3.8 km · Calstock railway station, 1.8 km · Gunnislake railway station, 3.9 km · Morwellham Quay, 2.5 km
- Cardiff → Bere Alston132 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · £23–30
- Bristol → Bere Alston155 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £18–24
- London → Bere Alston306 km · quickest by road, 5h 49m · £32–43
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bere Alston
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 Bere Alston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you are coming in by car but don't want to face the parking problems of the city-centre, there are also three main Park & Ride sites serving the city: (east near Plympton), (north) and (city centre) {{go | name | url | address | long | phone | hours | wikidata 2023-12-31 | content=Brittany Ferries operates services to Plymouth from Santander (22 hours) and Roscoff (6 hours during the day, 8 hours during the night).
- Get inThe Ferry Terminal is to the west of the City Centre at the Millbay Docks, about (800 m) a mile walk from the Hoe and Central shopping precinct.
- Get aroundOne of the most 'local' ways to get around is by water taxi or boat.
- Get aroundThe two most popular services amongst locals are probably the Barbican-Mountbatten line and the Cremyll Ferry from Admiral's Hard to Mount Edgecumbe.
- Get aroundThese can be relatively busy during the evenings and at rush hour; the Cremyll Ferry in particular can be quite full of school children at around 4pm during term time.
From Wikivoyage: Plymouth (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Bere Alston
- Calstockvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK1.7 km
- Bere Ferrersvillage in Devon, England4 km
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