Dawlish
Dawlish is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England.
Dawlish is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England. It is located on the south coast, 12 miles (19 km) south of the city of Exeter and a similar distance from the town of Torquay. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 15,257, which was 16% more than the 13,161 recorded in 2011. Dawlish had grown in the 18th century from a small fishing port into a seaside resort, as had its near neighbour, Teignmouth, in the 19th century.
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Worth seeing in and around Dawlish
10 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.
- 01Castle Dyke
Castle Dyke is an Iron Age hill fort situated between Chudleigh and Dawlish in Devon, England. The fort is situated on a hilltop at approximately 140 metres above sea level.
4.2 km · Iron Age hill fort situated between Chudleigh and Dawlish in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Teignmouth lighthouse
Teignmouth lighthouse is a lighthouse situated on the south end of the Den promenade at Teignmouth, Devon, England. It is paired with a red polycarbonate leading light at Powderham Terrace behind the lighthouse.
4.8 km · lighthouse in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Holy Trinity Church, Exmouth
Holy Trinity Church, Exmouth is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Exmouth.
5.5 km · church in Exmouth, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Mamhead House
Mamhead House, Mamhead, Devon, is a country house dating from 1827. Its origins are older but the present building was constructed for Robert William Newman, an Exeter merchant, in 1827–1833 by Anthony Salvin.
5.4 km · Grade I listed building in Teignbridge, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05The Maer Ground
The Maer Ground is a cricket ground in Exmouth, Devon. It is the home ground of Exmouth Cricket Club and is also used regularly by Devon County Cricket Club.
5.6 km · Cricket ground located in Exmouth, Devon · Wikipedia - 06Luscombe Castle
Luscombe Castle is a country house situated near the resort town of Dawlish, in the county of Devon in England. Upon purchasing the land at Luscombe in 1797, Charles Hoare demolished the existing house and commissioned architects John Nash and Humphrey Repton to design a new house and gardens at the site.
2 km · Grade I listed English country house in Teignbridge, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Woodway House
Woodway House is in Teignmouth, South Devon, England. It was at one time a farm on lands held by the Bishops of Exeter.
3.5 km · house in Teignmouth, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Michael The Archangel (Parish Church of East Teignmouth)
St Michael the Archangel's Church, Teignmouth is a Grade II listed Church of England parish church in Teignmouth, Devon.
4.2 km · church building in Teignmouth, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Grand Pier, Teignmouth
The Grand Pier, also known as Teignmouth Pier, is a pier in the town of Teignmouth, Devon, England, constructed between 1865 and 1867. It is 212 metres in length.
4.5 km · pier in Teignmouth, Devon · Wikipedia - 10Shaldon Zoo
Shaldon Zoo also known as Shaldon Wildlife Trust is a conservation centre in Shaldon, Devon. Set in an acre of woodland above the village near to the coastline, they look after and help preserve some of the rarest and most endangered animals in the world, with a focus on small primates.
5.4 km · zoo in the UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Dawlish Museum
The Knowle, Barton Terrace, EX7 9QH (take The Strand to Barton Hill; take Barton Hill and turn onto Barton Terrace).
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Things to do
Take the train along the coast. You can either go northeast towards Exeter or southwest towards Falmouth.
- 01Dawlish Warren Beach
Beach Rd, Dawlish EX7 0NF,.
From Wikivoyage: Dawlish, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Dawlish
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 91 km · Bristol (BRS), 103 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 232 km
- Stations
- Starcross railway station, 5.4 km · Teignmouth railway station, 4.2 km · Exmouth railway station, 5.8 km · Dawlish Warren railway station, 2.5 km · Dawlish railway station, 100 m
- Cardiff → Dawlish102 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £17–23
- Bristol → Dawlish115 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £13–17
- London → Dawlish255 km · quickest by road, 4h 55m · £27–36
- 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 Dawlish
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 Dawlish. 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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