Bovey Tracey
Bovey Tracey is a market town and civil parish in Devon, England.
Bovey Tracey is a market town and civil parish in Devon, England. It is located on the edge of Dartmoor, which gives rise to the slogan used on the town's boundary signs: The Gateway to the Moor. It is often known locally as Bovey. About 10 miles (16 km) south-west of Exeter, it lies on the A382 road, about halfway between Newton Abbot and Moretonhampstead. The town is at the centre of the electoral ward of Bovey. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 7,996, which was an increase on the 7,168 recorded in the 2011 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Bovey Tracey
6 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.
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Getting to Bovey Tracey
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 92 km · Bristol (BRS), 110 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 245 km
- Cardiff → Bovey Tracey105 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £18–23
- Bristol → Bovey Tracey122 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £13–17
- London → Bovey Tracey268 km · quickest by road, 4h 50m · £27–36
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bovey Tracey
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 Bovey Tracey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSee #Get around Brittany Ferries carry vehicles and foot passengers to Plymouth from Roscoff, Saint-Malo (both France), or Santander (Spain).
- Get inPoole in Dorset is by road from Exeter, and receives Brittany Ferries from Cherbourg (France) and Condor Ferries from Saint Helier (Jersey).
- Get inThe other English Channel ferry ports are within a few hours' drive of Devon.
From Wikivoyage: English Riviera and South Devon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.
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