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Cheriton Bishop

Cheriton Bishop is a village and civil parish situated on the northern borders of Dartmoor National park between Exeter and Okehampton, within Mid Devon District, Devon, England.

The place

Cheriton Bishop is a village and civil parish situated on the northern borders of Dartmoor National park between Exeter and Okehampton, within Mid Devon District, Devon, England. The population at the 2021 Census was 754. The history of the settlement can be traced back over a thousand years when the old village centre was established as a commercial centre for the local farming community.

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Getting to Cheriton Bishop

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 79 km · Bristol (BRS), 101 km · Birmingham (BHX), 235 km
  • Cardiff → Cheriton Bishop
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £18–24
  • Bristol → Cheriton Bishop
    114 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £13–17
  • London → Cheriton Bishop
    267 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · £27–36
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cheriton Bishop

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBrittany 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: Devon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    82 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    171 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    489 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    547 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    581 km

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