Gidleigh
Gidleigh is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England.
Gidleigh is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England. Located within Dartmoor National Park, the parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Throwleigh, Chagford and Dartmoor Forest. In 2001 its population was 116, little changed from 114 in 1901.
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Worth seeing in and around Gidleigh
4 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.
- 01Gidleigh Castle
Gidleigh Castle was the manor house of the manor of Gidleigh on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor, about two miles north-west of the town of Chagford, Devon, England.
200 m · Grade I listed castle in Gidleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of the Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity Church, Gidleigh dates from the late 15th-century, and is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Gidleigh, Devon.
200 m · church in Gidleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Mary the Virgin
St Mary's Church dates from the late 13th-century, and is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Throwleigh, Devon.
2.4 km · church in Throwleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Michael
St Michael the Archangel's Church, Chagford is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Chagford, Devon.
3 km · church in Chagford, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gidleigh
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 88 km · Bristol (BRS), 113 km · Birmingham (BHX), 246 km
- Cardiff → Gidleigh102 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £19–25
- Bristol → Gidleigh125 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £14–19
- London → Gidleigh278 km · quickest by road, 5h 12m · £28–38
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No local-transport research exists yet for Gidleigh
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 Gidleigh. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBrittany Ferries carry vehicles and foot passengers to Plymouth from Roscoff, Saint-Malo (both France), or Santander (Spain).
- Get inPoole in Dorset is by road from Exeter, and receives Brittany Ferries from Cherbourg (France) and Condor Ferries from Saint Helier (Jersey).
- Get inThe other English Channel ferry ports are within a few hours' drive of Devon.
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Next door to Gidleigh
- Chagfordtown and civil parish in Devon, England, UK2.9 km
- Throwleighvillage and civil parish in Devon, UK2.2 km
- Frenchbeervillage in Devon, England, UK2.9 km