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Crapstone

Crapstone is a village in the county of Devon.

The place

Crapstone is a village in the county of Devon. The village is located on the edge of Dartmoor, in the parish of Buckland Monachorum and is approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from the village of Yelverton, 9 miles (14 km) from the city of Plymouth and 5 miles (8 km) from Tavistock.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Crapstone

2 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
    Buckland Abbey

    Buckland Abbey is a Grade I listed 700-year-old house in Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, England, noted for its connection with Sir Richard Grenville the Younger and Sir Francis Drake. It is owned by the National Trust.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church, Buckland Monachorum is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Buckland Monachorum, Devon.

    1.4 km · church in Buckland Monachorum, Devon, 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.

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Getting to Crapstone

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 114 km · Bristol (BRS), 139 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 228 km
  • Cardiff → Crapstone
    128 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · £23–30
  • Bristol → Crapstone
    151 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £18–24
  • London → Crapstone
    301 km · quickest by road, 5h 43m · £32–43
  • 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 Crapstone

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you are coming in by car but don't want to face the parking problems of the city-centre, there are also three main Park & Ride sites serving the city: (east near Plympton), (north) and (city centre) {{go | name | url | address | long | phone | hours | wikidata 2023-12-31 | content=Brittany Ferries operates services to Plymouth from Santander (22 hours) and Roscoff (6 hours during the day, 8 hours during the night).
  • Get inThe Ferry Terminal is to the west of the City Centre at the Millbay Docks, about (800 m) a mile walk from the Hoe and Central shopping precinct.
  • Get aroundOne of the most 'local' ways to get around is by water taxi or boat.
  • Get aroundThe two most popular services amongst locals are probably the Barbican-Mountbatten line and the Cremyll Ferry from Admiral's Hard to Mount Edgecumbe.
  • Get aroundThese can be relatively busy during the evenings and at rush hour; the Cremyll Ferry in particular can be quite full of school children at around 4pm during term time.

From Wikivoyage: Plymouth (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

    86 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    199 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    484 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    570 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    604 km

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Around it

Next door to Crapstone

  • Buckland Monachorumvillage and civil parish in Devon, United Kingdom1.4 km
  • Horrabridgevillage in Devon, England, UK1.4 km
  • Walkhamptonvillage and civil parish in Devon, UK3.6 km
  • Meavyvillage and civil parish in Devon, England, UK4 km
  • Yelvertonvillage in Devon, United Kingdom1.8 km
  • Douslandvillage in Devon, England, UK3 km