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Dittisham

Dittisham is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of the English county Devon.

Dittisham
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The place

Dittisham is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of the English county Devon. It is situated on the west bank of the tidal River Dart, 2 miles (3.2 km) upstream of Dartmouth.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dittisham

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
    Dartmouth Steam Railway

    The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a 6.7-mile heritage railway on the former Great Western Railway branch line between Paignton and Kingswear in Devon, England. Much of the railway's business is from summer tourists from the resorts of Torbay, who travel to Kingswear, where the Dartmouth Passenger Ferry takes them across the River Dart to Dartmouth.

    2 km · heritage railway in Devon, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sandridge Park

    Sandridge Park, near Stoke Gabriel, Devon, is an English country house in the Italianate style, designed by John Nash around 1805 for the Dowager Lady Ashburton, née Elizabeth Baring, the wife of John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.3 km · country house in Stoke Gabriel, 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 Dittisham

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 114 km · Bristol (BRS), 127 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 223 km
Stations
Churston railway station, 3.5 km · Greenway Halt railway station, 2.2 km
  • Cardiff → Dittisham
    127 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · £21–28
  • Bristol → Dittisham
    140 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £17–22
  • London → Dittisham
    275 km · quickest by road, 5h 35m · £31–41
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dittisham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou can then travel the last few miles through breathtaking scenery to Kingswear before crossing the Dart on one of the ferries.
  • Get aroundThe town is too small for a traveller to need a bus, by foot is the best way There is a ferry between the two sides of the valley, there is a small charge for crossing

From Wikivoyage: Dartmouth (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

    116 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    166 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    520 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    586 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    621 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dittisham

  • Stoke Gabrielvillage and civil parish in Devon, England, UK3.5 km
  • Cornworthyvillage in Devon, England, UK3.3 km
  • Galmptonvillage in Torbay, Devon, United Kingdom3 km
  • Townstalvillage in Devon, England, UK3.8 km
  • Captonvillage in Devon, England, UK3.1 km