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Bugle

The bugle is a simple signaling brass instrument with a wide conical bore.

Bugle
Bugle · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The bugle is a simple signaling brass instrument with a wide conical bore. It normally has no valves or other pitch-altering devices, and is thus limited to its natural harmonic notes, and pitch is controlled entirely by varying the air and embouchure.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bugle

One place 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
    Wheal Martyn

    The Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum is a museum of china clay mining, at Carthew, on the B3274 road about 2 miles north of St Austell in Cornwall, England. A Victorian clay works has been preserved, and there is an exhibition building.

    3.5 km · museum in Cornwall, 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 Bugle

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 151 km · Bristol (BRS), 182 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 218 km
Stations
Roche railway station, 3.7 km · Bugle railway station, 500 m · Luxulyan railway station, 3.3 km
  • Cardiff → Bugle
    165 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · £26–35
  • Bristol → Bugle
    194 km · quickest by road, 3h · £22–29
  • London → Bugle
    350 km · quickest by road, 5h 10m · £36–47
  • From anywhere
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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 Bugle

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inInternational ferries arrive into Plymouth from: Roscoff, (Brittany Ferries) Santander, (Brittany Ferries) Use westbound from Plymouth to Saltash, Bodmin, and other destinations in Cornwall.
  • Get inThe Scillonian Ferry service operates between St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly and Penzance.
  • Get inSeveral ferries cross the Tamar from Plymouth including: Torpoint - Plymouth - Torpoint Ferry (takes vehicles); Mount Edgcumbe - Plymouth - Cremyll Ferry; Cawsand - Plymouth - Cawsand Ferry Wikivoyage has a guide to Rail travel in Great Britain Railway stations in Cornwall are part of the National Rail network.
  • Get aroundIn certain areas of Cornwall, ferries exist.
  • Get aroundFerries in the Fal River can be travelled on using a 'Mussel Card' visitor's ticket allowing for unlimited travel across the ferries at £27.60 for an adult and slightly cheaper prices for children.

From Wikivoyage: Cornwall, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    87 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    249 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    455 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    577 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    610 km

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Around it

Next door to Bugle

  • Luxulyanvillage and civil parish in mid Cornwall, England3.6 km
  • Rochevillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK2.9 km
  • Treverbynhamlet and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK3.1 km
  • Penwithickvillage in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Bilberryvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom1.2 km
  • Cornwallunitary council area of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom3.8 km