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Folly Gate

Folly Gate is a village in the civil parish of Inwardleigh, in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England.

Folly Gate
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The place

Folly Gate is a village in the civil parish of Inwardleigh, in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. It is situated near Okehampton. An airfield existed near the village between 1928 and 1960, it is now a field. In 1986 the village contained about 100 houses and had a population of 230.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Folly Gate

One place 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
    Museum of Policing in Devon and Cornwall

    The Museum of Policing in Devon and Cornwall is a registered charity that collects, preserves and celebrates the history of policing in Devon and Cornwall. The museum possesses a comprehensive collection of artefacts and archives that relate to Devon and Cornwall Police and its antecedent forces that include the Devon County Constabulary and Cornwall County Constabulary and date back to the earliest days of policing.

    3.3 km · museum in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Folly Gate

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 85 km · Bristol (BRS), 114 km · Birmingham (BHX), 245 km
Stations
Okehampton railway station, 3.9 km
  • Cardiff → Folly Gate
    99 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £20–26
  • Bristol → Folly Gate
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £15–20
  • London → Folly Gate
    284 km · quickest by road, 5h 12m · £29–39
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Folly Gate

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

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    65 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    192 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    471 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    540 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    575 km

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Around it

Next door to Folly Gate

  • Okehamptontown in Devon, England3 km
  • Jacobstowevillage and civil parish in Devon, United Kingdom2.8 km
  • Inwardleighvillage and civil parish in Devon, England2 km
  • Stockleyhamlet in Devon, England, UK4 km
  • Southcotthamlet in Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England3.8 km