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Crafthole

Crafthole is a village in the parish of Sheviock, in southeast Cornwall, England.

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The place

Crafthole is a village in the parish of Sheviock, in southeast Cornwall, England. The village has a pub, the Finnygook Inn, community shop, former Methodist chapel, and village hall.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Crafthole

6 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
    Antony House

    Antony House is an early 18th-century property in the care of the National Trust. It is located between the town of Torpoint and the village of Antony in the county of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Scraesdon Fort

    Scraesdon Fort, near the village of Antony, is one of several forts in South East Cornwall which formed part of the ring of forts surrounding Plymouth to protect Plymouth Sound and, in particular, the naval dockyard of Devonport from enemy naval attack. They were built as a result of a decision in Lord Palmerston's premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases in the south of England.

    2.8 km · fort in Antony, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tregantle Fort

    Tregantle Fort in south east Cornwall is one of several forts surrounding Plymouth that were built as a result of a decision in Lord Palmerston's premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases on the Channel coast.

    2.3 km · fort in Antony, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St German's Priory

    St Germans Priory is a former Augustinian priory church in the village of St Germans, Cornwall, England. Originating as the seat of the Saxon bishops of Cornwall, the present building is largely Norman, with significant extensions in the 14th and 15th centuries and later restoration in the Victorian period.

    3.6 km · church building in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St James

    The Church of St James is a Grade I listed 12th-century Anglican parish church in Antony, Cornwall, England.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed church in Antony, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Port Eliot

    Port Eliot in the parish of St Germans, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, is the ancestral seat of the Eliot family, whose present head is Albert Eliot, 11th Earl of St Germans. Port Eliot comprises a stately home with its own church, which serves as the parish church of St Germans.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed country house in St Germans, Cornwall, 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.

Go there

Getting to Crafthole

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 133 km · Bristol (BRS), 159 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 213 km
Stations
St Germans railway station, 3.3 km
  • Cardiff → Crafthole
    147 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · £24–32
  • Bristol → Crafthole
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · £19–26
  • London → Crafthole
    319 km · quickest by road, 5h 56m · £33–45
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Crafthole

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere is also a ferry service in the summer (from Cawsand Bay to Plymouth Hoe).
  • Get inBy car via the Torpoint ferry, by passenger ferry from Stonehouse in Plymouth to Cremyll and then by bus, or usually, by boat from the Barbican area of Plymouth.
  • Get aroundA very pleasant day can be had by doing a round trip: getting across by boat from the barbican and then taking a bus to Cremyll (infrequent) and catching the ferry across the Tamar.

From Wikivoyage: Cawsand, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-05.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    94 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    215 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

    582 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    616 km

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

Around it

Next door to Crafthole

  • St Germansvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England3.5 km
  • Antonyvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK3.4 km
  • Sheviockhamlet and civil parish in Cornwall, UK1 km
  • Portwrinklevillage in Cornwall, England, UK800 m
  • Freathyvillage in Cornwall, England, UK4 km
  • Polbathicvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3.2 km