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Village in Devon, England · United Kingdom

# Crockernwell

Crockernwell is a small village with a Methodist church.

![Crockernwell](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Stanburys_Orchard%2C_Crockernwell_%28geograph_3875660%29.jpg)

Crockernwell · Wikimedia Commons

The place

Crockernwell is a small village with a Methodist church. It is located 2 miles west of Cheriton Bishop and 12 miles west of Exeter, Devon, England.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crockernwell), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Crockernwell

3 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. Castle Drogo Castle Drogo is a country house and mixed-revivalist castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. Constructed between 1911 and 1930, it is the last castle built in England. 3.9 km · country house in the form of a castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Drogo)
2. Church of St Andrew St Andrew's Church, Hittisleigh, is an Anglican parish church in Hittisleigh in Mid Devon. It is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England. 3.9 km · Grade I listed church in Hittisleigh, Devon, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Hittisleigh)
3. Fingle Bridge Fingle Bridge is a 17th-century stone arch bridge carrying an unclassified road over the River Teign near Drewsteignton, within Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. This packhorse bridge has three arches and the two central piers are surrounded by triangular cutwaters extending upwards to form pedestrian refuges, and is a Grade II\* listed building. 2.5 km · bridge in Devon, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingle_Bridge)

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 Crockernwell

**Airports:** Cardiff (CWL), 81 km · Bristol (BRS), 104 km · Birmingham (BHX), 238 km\

- Cardiff → Crockernwell 94 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-crockernwell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Crockernwell)
- Bristol → Crockernwell 116 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-crockernwell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Crockernwell)
- London → Crockernwell 269 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · £27–36 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-crockernwell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Crockernwell)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Crockernwell)

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 Crockernwell

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in Brittany Ferries carry vehicles and foot passengers to Plymouth from Roscoff, Saint-Malo (both France), or Santander (Spain).
- Get in Poole in Dorset is by road from Exeter, and receives Brittany Ferries from Cherbourg (France) and Condor Ferries from Saint Helier (Jersey).
- Get in The other English Channel ferry ports are within a few hours' drive of Devon.

From [Wikivoyage: Devon](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 82 km
2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 173 km
3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 489 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 548 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 583 km

If you know how people move in Crockernwell – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ccrockernwell&title=Crockernwell&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fcrockernwell), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Crockernwell

- [Drewsteignton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/drewsteignton) village in Devon, England, UK 2.2 km
- [Hittisleigh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hittisleigh) village in Devon, England, UK 3.6 km
- [Cheriton Bishop](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cheriton-bishop) village in Devon, England, UK 2.9 km

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