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Buckland Monachorum

Buckland Monachorum is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England, situated on the River Tavy, about 10 miles north of Plymouth.

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The place

Buckland Monachorum is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England, situated on the River Tavy, about 10 miles north of Plymouth.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Buckland Monachorum

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.

  1. 01
    Buckland Abbey

    Buckland Abbey is a Grade I listed 700-year-old house in Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, England, noted for its connection with Sir Richard Grenville the Younger and Sir Francis Drake. It is owned by the National Trust.

    1.6 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church, Buckland Monachorum is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Buckland Monachorum, Devon.

    100 m · church in Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Buckland Monachorum

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 114 km · Bristol (BRS), 140 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 229 km
  • Cardiff → Buckland Monachorum
    128 km · quickest by road, 3h 56m · £23–30
  • Bristol → Buckland Monachorum
    151 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £18–24
  • London → Buckland Monachorum
    302 km · quickest by road, 5h 47m · £32–43
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Buckland Monachorum

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    85 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    201 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    483 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 Buckland Monachorum – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Buckland Monachorum

  • Horrabridgevillage in Devon, England, UK2.2 km
  • Yelvertonvillage in Devon, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Crapstonevillage in Devon, England, UK1.4 km
  • New Quayvillage in Devon, England3.7 km
  • Axtownvillage in Devon, England, UK2.5 km