Meavy
Meavy is a small village, civil parish and former manor in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England.
Meavy is a small village, civil parish and former manor in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. It lies a mile or so east of Yelverton. In 2021 the parish had a population of 595. The River Meavy runs near the village. For administrative purposes the parish is grouped with the parishes of Sheepstor and Walkhampton to form Burrator Parish Council, and for electoral purposes it is grouped with the same two parishes to form Burrator Ward.
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Worth seeing in and around Meavy
2 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.
- 01Ringmoor stone row and cairn circle
Ringmoor stone row and cairn circle is a prehistoric stone row and cairn circle on Ringmoor Down in Devon. It is located three miles east of the A386, northeast of the village of Shaugh Prior.
2.5 km · archaeological site in Sheepstor, Devon, UK · Wikipedia - 02Burrator Reservoir
Burrator Reservoir is a reservoir situated on the southern side of Dartmoor in Devon, England. It is part of a number of reservoirs and dams that were built over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries in the area now covered by Dartmoor National Park to supply drinking water to the city of Plymouth and other rapidly growing towns in the surrounding lowlands.
1.9 km · reservoir in Devon, England · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Burrator Reservoir
This reservoir features in Steven Spielberg's film War Horse.
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Things to do
- 01Cuckoo Rock
- 02Dewerstone Rock
PL7 5HG (overlooks Shaugh Prior from the north).
- 03Eastern Tor
- 04Gutter Tor
- 05Legis Tor
- 06Lowery Tor
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Getting to Meavy
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 113 km · Bristol (BRS), 137 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 228 km
- Cardiff → Meavy127 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · £23–30
- Bristol → Meavy149 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £18–24
- London → Meavy42 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £4–6
- 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 Meavy
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 Meavy. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you are coming in by car but don't want to face the parking problems of the city-centre, there are also three main Park & Ride sites serving the city: (east near Plympton), (north) and (city centre) {{go | name | url | address | long | phone | hours | wikidata 2023-12-31 | content=Brittany Ferries operates services to Plymouth from Santander (22 hours) and Roscoff (6 hours during the day, 8 hours during the night).
- Get inThe Ferry Terminal is to the west of the City Centre at the Millbay Docks, about (800 m) a mile walk from the Hoe and Central shopping precinct.
- Get aroundOne of the most 'local' ways to get around is by water taxi or boat.
- Get aroundThe two most popular services amongst locals are probably the Barbican-Mountbatten line and the Cremyll Ferry from Admiral's Hard to Mount Edgecumbe.
- Get aroundThese can be relatively busy during the evenings and at rush hour; the Cremyll Ferry in particular can be quite full of school children at around 4pm during term time.
From Wikivoyage: Plymouth (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 Meavy – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Meavy
- Sheepstorvillage in Devon, England, UK1.8 km
- Horrabridgevillage in Devon, England, UK3.5 km
- Walkhamptonvillage and civil parish in Devon, UK2.7 km
- Yelvertonvillage in Devon, United Kingdom2.2 km
- Douslandvillage in Devon, England, UK1.1 km
- Crapstonevillage in Devon, England, UK4 km