Cockwood
Cockwood is a small village on the west side of the Exe Estuary in Dawlish civil parish, Teignbridge district, in the county of Devon, England.
Cockwood is a small village on the west side of the Exe Estuary in Dawlish civil parish, Teignbridge district, in the county of Devon, England. Lying between the villages of Dawlish Warren and Starcross, it is separated from the estuary by the main railway line between Exeter and Torquay, and is set around a small tidal harbour which boats must reach via a bridge under the railway line.
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Worth seeing in and around Cockwood
4 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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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.
Getting to Cockwood
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 87 km · Bristol (BRS), 99 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 230 km
- Stations
- Starcross railway station, 1.3 km · Dawlish Warren railway station, 2 km · Lympstone Village railway station, 3.8 km · Exmouth railway station, 2.5 km
- Cardiff → Cockwood98 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £17–22
- Bristol → Cockwood111 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–16
- London → Cockwood252 km · quickest by road, 4h 47m · £26–35
- 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 Cockwood
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 Cockwood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextLand's End is not that far from Dawlish, and visiting it could be a day trip.
From Wikivoyage: Dawlish, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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