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 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.
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.
- 01Start 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
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Getting to Hallsands
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 131 km · Bristol (BRS), 144 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 206 km
- Cardiff → Hallsands87 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
- Bristol → Hallsands58 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
- London → Hallsands285 km · quickest by road, 5h 58m · £32–42
- 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 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.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Hallsands – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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