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Hallsands

Hallsands is a village and beach in south Devon, England, in a precarious position between cliffs and the sea, between Beesands to the north and Start Point to the south.

Hallsands
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The place

Hallsands is a village and beach in south Devon, England, in a precarious position between cliffs and the sea, between Beesands to the north and Start Point to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hallsands

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
    Start Point Lighthouse

    Start Point Lighthouse was built in 1836 to protect shipping off Start Point, Devon, England. Open to the public in summer months, it is owned and operated by Trinity House.

    2 km · lighthouse in Stokenham, South Hams, 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 Hallsands

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 131 km · Bristol (BRS), 144 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 206 km
  • Cardiff → Hallsands
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
  • Bristol → Hallsands
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
  • London → Hallsands
    285 km · quickest by road, 5h 58m · £32–42
  • From anywhere
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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 Hallsands

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 Hallsands. 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

    127 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    174 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    527 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    602 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    637 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hallsands

  • Chivelstonevillage in Devon, England, UK2.9 km
  • Stokenhamvillage in Devon, England, UK1.8 km
  • Start Pointpromontory in the South Hams district in Devon, England2.3 km
  • Fordhamlet in Chivelstone, South Hams, Devon, England3.5 km
  • Beesandsvillage in Devon, England, UK1.8 km
  • Torcrossvillage in Devon, England, UK3.3 km