Kingskerswell
Kingskerswell is a village and civil parish within the Teignbridge local government district in the south of Devon, England.
Kingskerswell is a village and civil parish within the Teignbridge local government district in the south of Devon, England. The village grew up where an ancient track took the narrowest point across a marshy valley, and it is of ancient foundation, being mentioned in the Domesday Book. It has a church dating back to the 14th century and the ruins of a manor house of a similar date. The coming of the railway in the 1840s had a large effect on the village, starting its conversion into a commuter town. The village is a major part of the electoral ward called Kerswell-with-Combe. This ward had a population of 5,679 at the 2011 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Kingskerswell
9 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.
- 01Compton Castle
Compton Castle in the parish of Marldon in Devon, is a fortified manor house in the village of Compton, about 5 miles west of Torquay on the southern coast of Devon, England. The estate was home to the families of Compton, de la Pole, Doddiscombe, Gilbert and Templer.
3.3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in South Hams, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Brunel Manor
Brunel Manor, previously known as Watcombe Park, is a mansion on the outskirts of the seaside resort of Torquay, Devon, England.
3.3 km · country house in Torquay, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Forde House
Forde House, now known as Old Forde House, is a Grade I listed former manor house dating in back to c. 1550 in Newton Abbot, Devon, England. The building was substantially enlarged c. 1610 and is noted for its fine 17th-century wood-carving and plasterwork.
3.9 km · Grade I listed building in Teignbridge, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Roman Church Of Our Lady, Help Of Christians And St Denis
Our Lady Help of Christians and St Denis Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in St Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, England. It was built in 1869 and designed by Joseph Hansom in the Gothic Revival style.
3.7 km · church in Torbay, UK · Wikipedia - 05Cockington Court
Cockington Court, near Torquay in Devon, England, is Grade II* listed on the English Heritage Register. The manor dates back to Saxon times, and is mentioned in Domesday Book.
3.6 km · historic house in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Michael's Chapel, Chapel Hill
St Michael's Chapel is a small, aisleless, medieval chapel situated on the summit of Chapel Hill, in Torquay, Devon. The structure is considered to date from around the 13th or 14th century.
2.9 km · Chapel in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Town Hall
St Marychurch Town Hall is a municipal building in Fore Street, St Marychurch, Devon, England. The town hall, which is now used as a block of apartments, is a Grade II listed building.
3.9 km · town hall in Torbay, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Torquay Cemetery
Torquay Cemetery, also known as Barton Road Cemetery, is a burial ground located in the town of Torquay, Devon, England. The first interment, which took place in the Nonconformist section, was in 1852.
2.4 km · cemetery in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Shiphay Manor
Shiphay Manor is a Manor house in Torquay, Devon, England. Originally a monastic grange for nearby Torre Abbey, the current house was built in 1884 of red sandstone rubble.
2.5 km · manor house in Devon, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kingskerswell
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 101 km · Bristol (BRS), 115 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 236 km
- Stations
- Torre railway station, 3.1 km
- Cardiff → Kingskerswell113 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £18–24
- Bristol → Kingskerswell127 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £14–18
- London → Kingskerswell267 km · quickest by road, 4h 54m · £27–37
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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 Kingskerswell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextBrixham – A small fishing town, reachable by ferry.
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