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Bishopsteignton

Bishopsteignton is a village and civil parish in South Devon, England, between Newton Abbot and Teignmouth, close to the Teign Estuary.

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The place

Bishopsteignton is a village and civil parish in South Devon, England, between Newton Abbot and Teignmouth, close to the Teign Estuary. The village is on a steep hill, and has a post office and pharmacy and a small, family-run village shop. The village school has about 180 pupils. The electoral ward had a population of 2,570 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bishopsteignton

8 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.

  1. 01
    Teignmouth lighthouse

    Teignmouth lighthouse is a lighthouse situated on the south end of the Den promenade at Teignmouth, Devon, England. It is paired with a red polycarbonate leading light at Powderham Terrace behind the lighthouse.

    3.4 km · lighthouse in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Castle 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.

    3.4 km · Iron Age hill fort situated between Chudleigh and Dawlish in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hackney Canal

    The Hackney Canal was a short canal in Devon, England, that linked the Hackney Clay Cellars to the River Teign. It was privately built by Lord Clifford in 1843, and throughout its life carried ball clay for use in the production of pottery.

    3.3 km · canal in Devon, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Grand Pier, Teignmouth

    The Grand Pier, also known as Teignmouth Pier, is a pier in the town of Teignmouth, Devon, England, constructed between 1865 and 1867. It is 212 metres in length.

    3.5 km · pier in Teignmouth, Devon · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Michael The Archangel (Parish Church of East Teignmouth)

    St Michael the Archangel's Church, Teignmouth is a Grade II listed Church of England parish church in Teignmouth, Devon.

    3.6 km · church building in Teignmouth, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Shaldon Zoo

    Shaldon Zoo also known as Shaldon Wildlife Trust is a conservation centre in Shaldon, Devon. Set in an acre of woodland above the village near to the coastline, they look after and help preserve some of the rarest and most endangered animals in the world, with a focus on small primates.

    3.6 km · zoo in the UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Peter

    The Church of St Peter is the Church of England parish church of the village of Shaldon, Devon. Designed by Edmund Harold Sedding, and with later additions by William Douglas Caröe, it is a Grade I listed building.

    2.7 km · Grade I listed church in Shaldon, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Woodway House

    Woodway House is in Teignmouth, South Devon, England. It was at one time a farm on lands held by the Bishops of Exeter.

    3.5 km · house in Teignmouth, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bishopsteignton

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 95 km · Bristol (BRS), 109 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 238 km
Stations
Teignmouth railway station, 3.4 km
  • Cardiff → Bishopsteignton
    106 km · quickest by road, 3h · £18–24
  • Bristol → Bishopsteignton
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £13–18
  • London → Bishopsteignton
    261 km · quickest by road, 4h 51m · £27–36
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bishopsteignton

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 Bishopsteignton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    105 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    159 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    512 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    569 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    603 km

If you know how people move in Bishopsteignton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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