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Capton

Capton is a village near Dartmouth in Devon, England.

Capton
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The place

Capton is a village near Dartmouth in Devon, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Capton

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
    Q8032938

    Woodlands Family Theme Park is an all-weather family amusement park and falconry display on the A3122 road, 5 miles from Dartmouth, in South Devon, England. It is part of Bendalls Leisure Ltd which also owns Twinlakes Theme Park and Wheelgate Park.

    2.8 km · theme park in Devon, United Kingdom · 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 Capton

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 116 km · Bristol (BRS), 130 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 221 km
  • Cardiff → Capton
    38 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £13–17
  • Bristol → Capton
    61 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
  • London → Capton
    225 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · £24–32
  • 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 Capton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou can then travel the last few miles through breathtaking scenery to Kingswear before crossing the Dart on one of the ferries.
  • Get aroundThe town is too small for a traveller to need a bus, by foot is the best way There is a ferry between the two sides of the valley, there is a small charge for crossing

From Wikivoyage: Dartmouth (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

    116 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    169 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    519 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    588 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    623 km

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

Around it

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