Heanton Punchardon
Heanton Punchardon ( ) is a village, civil parish and former manor, anciently part of Braunton Hundred.
Heanton Punchardon ( ) is a village, civil parish and former manor, anciently part of Braunton Hundred. It is situated directly east-southeast of the village of Braunton, in North Devon. The parish lies on the north bank of the estuary of the River Taw and it is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of Braunton, Marwood, Ashford and across the estuary, Fremington. The population was 418 in 1801 and 404 in 1901. Its largest localities are Wrafton and Chivenor. The surrounding area is also an electoral ward with a total population at the 2011 census of 2,673.
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Worth seeing in and around Heanton Punchardon
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.
- 01St Brannock's Church, Braunton
St Brannock's Church is a medieval Church of England church in Braunton, Devon, England. According to legend it was founded by Saint Brannock, a 6th-century Christian saint.
2.3 km · church in Braunton, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Museum of British Surfing
The Museum of British Surfing is a Museum based in Braunton, Devon; the museum contains exhibits relating to the history of surfing in the United Kingdom. The Museum of British Surfing was founded by ITV News journalist and surfing historian Pete Robinson as a non-profit organisation called 'The Surfing Museum' in 2003.
2 km · museum in Braunton, Devon, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Ash Barton Estate
Ash in the parish of Braunton in North Devon is a historic estate listed in the Domesday Book. The present mansion, known as The Ash Barton estate is a Grade II* listed building.
2.6 km · Grade II* listed building in Braunton, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Peter
The Church of St Peter is the Anglican parish church for Fremington, now a suburb of nearby Barnstaple but at one time a separate village. There has been a church on the site since at least 1268 with the present structure mostly dating to the 13th and 15th-centuries.
2.7 km · church in Fremington, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Heanton Punchardon
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 65 km · Bristol (BRS), 104 km · Birmingham (BHX), 224 km
- Cardiff → Heanton Punchardon80 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · £19–25
- Bristol → Heanton Punchardon115 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £14–19
- London → Heanton Punchardon283 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · £30–40
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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 Heanton Punchardon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextPassenger ferries to Lundy Island Exmoor National Park lies 4 miles to the east by road from Ilfracombe Dartmoor National Park is about 1 hour's drive to the south.
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Next door to Heanton Punchardon
- Brauntonvillage and civil parish in Devon, England, UK2.1 km
- Fremingtonvillage and civil parish in North Devon, England3.6 km
- Ashfordvillage in North Devon, Devon, England3.1 km
- Wraftonvillage in Devon, United Kingdom900 m
- Yellandvillage in Devon, England, UK2.9 km
- Knowlevillage in Braunton, Devon, England, UK3.6 km