Kingswear
Kingswear is a village and civil parish in the South Hams area of the English county of Devon.
Kingswear is a village and civil parish in the South Hams area of the English county of Devon. The village is located on the east bank of the tidal River Dart, close to the river's mouth and opposite the small town of Dartmouth. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and has a population of 1,332, reducing to 1,217 at the 2011 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Kingswear
8 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.
- 01Dartmouth Castle
Dartmouth Castle is an artillery fort, built to protect Dartmouth harbour in Devon, England. The earliest parts of the castle date from the 1380s, when, in response to the threat of a French attack, the civic authorities created a small enclosure castle overlooking the mouth of the Dart estuary.
800 m · Grade I listed Device Fort in Dartmouth, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Kingswear Castle
Kingswear Castle is an artillery fort, built to protect Dartmouth harbour in Devon, England. It was constructed between 1491 and 1502 in response to the threat of French attack and was one of the first purpose-built artillery forts in Britain.
1.1 km · Grade I listed castle in South Hams, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Dartmouth Steam Railway
The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a 6.7-mile heritage railway on the former Great Western Railway branch line between Paignton and Kingswear in Devon, England. Much of the railway's business is from summer tourists from the resorts of Torbay, who travel to Kingswear, where the Dartmouth Passenger Ferry takes them across the River Dart to Dartmouth.
3.1 km · heritage railway in Devon, England · Wikipedia - 04Coleton Fishacre
Coleton Fishacre is a property consisting of a 24-acre garden and a house in the Arts and Crafts style, near Kingswear in Devon, England. The property has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1982.
2.7 km · Country house in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Kingswear
The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is situated in the village of Kingswear in the English county of Devon, it stands in a slightly elevated position at the junction of Higher Street and Church Hill close to the railway station and the Dartmouth Lower Ferry and overlooks the River Dart. The church is a grade II listed building.
100 m · church in Kingswear, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Bayard's Cove Fort
Bayard's Cove Fort, also known historically as Berescove or Bearscore Castle, is an English 16th-century artillery blockhouse, built to defend the harbour entrance at Dartmouth in Devon. Constructed in the early part of the century, it had eleven gunports for heavy artillery and was intended to engage enemy vessels that broke past the external defences of the Dartmouth and Kingswear castles.
300 m · castle in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Dartmouth Museum
Dartmouth Museum is a local museum in Dartmouth, Devon, which displays and chronicles the history of the port of Dartmouth. It moved to its current location in the 1950s and is housed in a merchant's house, No.
600 m · local museum in Devon, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Saviour
St Saviour’s Church, Dartmouth is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in Dartmouth, Devon.
500 m · church in Dartmouth, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kingswear
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 118 km · Bristol (BRS), 130 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 220 km
- Stations
- Kingswear railway station, 100 m · Dartmouth railway station, 500 m
- Cardiff → Kingswear41 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–9
- Bristol → Kingswear3 km · quickest by road, 20 min · £0.5
- London → Kingswear32 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £4–5
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kingswear
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 Kingswear. 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
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Next door to Kingswear
- Dartmouthtown in Devon, England500 m
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