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Mamhead

Mamhead is a rural village and civil parish near Dawlish and Kenton in Devon, South West England, in the Teignbridge local authority area.

The place

Mamhead is a rural village and civil parish near Dawlish and Kenton in Devon, South West England, in the Teignbridge local authority area. Current community venues include Mamhead Village Hall and the Church of England parish church, dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle,

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mamhead

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
    Mamhead House

    Mamhead House, Mamhead, Devon, is a country house dating from 1827. Its origins are older but the present building was constructed for Robert William Newman, an Exeter merchant, in 1827–1833 by Anthony Salvin.

    100 m · Grade I listed building in Teignbridge, United Kingdom · 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 Mamhead

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 87 km · Bristol (BRS), 101 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 233 km
  • Cardiff → Mamhead
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £17–22
  • Bristol → Mamhead
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–16
  • London → Mamhead
    256 km · quickest by road, 4h 47m · £26–35
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mamhead

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 Mamhead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextLand's End is not that far from Dawlish, and visiting it could be a day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Dawlish, 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

    102 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    156 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    509 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    562 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    597 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mamhead

  • Kentonvillage in Devon, England, United Kingdom3.7 km
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