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Village in Devon, England · United Kingdom

# Milton Abbot

Milton Abbot is a village, parish, and former manor in Devon, 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Tavistock, Devon, and 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of Launceston, Cornwall.

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Milton Abbot · Nilfanion

The place

Milton Abbot is a village, parish, and former manor in Devon, 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Tavistock, Devon, and 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of Launceston, Cornwall.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Abbot), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Milton Abbot

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.

1. Church of St Nonna The Church of St Nonna is a redundant church in Bradstone, Devon, England that was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. 2.9 km · church in Bradstone, Devon, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Nonna,_Bradstone)
2. Kelly House, Devon Kelly House is a Grade I listed country house and estate located in the village of Kelly, in Devon, England. The estate has been the property of the Kelly family since approximately 1100. 2.4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Kelly, West Devon, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_House,_Devon)
3. Castle Head, Devon Castle Head is a British Iron Age Hill fort occupying a commanding position on a promontory at the neck of a bow in the River Tamar on the Devon side close to Dunterton. The fort is situated approximately 100 metres above sea level, there is another earthwork due south lower on the promontory at approx 50 metres above sea level, and others on the Cornwall side of the river. 2.6 km · Iron Age Hill fort · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Head,_Devon)
4. Endsleigh Cottage Endsleigh Cottage is a country house near Milton Abbot, about 6 miles NW of Tavistock, Devon in England. It is a Grade I listed building. 1.7 km · Grade I listed house in Milton Abbot, Devon, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endsleigh_Cottage)

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.

Go there

## Getting to Milton Abbot

**Airports:** Cardiff (CWL), 110 km · Bristol (BRS), 139 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 239 km\

- Cardiff → Milton Abbot 123 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £22–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-milton-abbot) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Milton+Abbot)
- Bristol → Milton Abbot 150 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £17–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-milton-abbot) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Milton+Abbot)
- London → Milton Abbot 305 km · quickest by road, 4h 47m · £32–42 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-milton-abbot) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Milton+Abbot)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Milton%20Abbot)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Milton Abbot

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

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 71 km
2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 208 km
3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 469 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 557 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 591 km

If you know how people move in Milton Abbot – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cmilton-abbot&title=Milton+Abbot&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fmilton-abbot), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Milton Abbot

- [Dunterton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dunterton) village and civil parish in Devon, England 2.9 km
- [Bradstone](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bradstone) village and civil parish in Devon, United Kingdom 3 km
- [Marystow](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/marystow) village in Devon, England, UK 3.8 km
- [Sydenham Damerel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sydenham-damerel) village and civil parish in West Devon, Devon, England 3.3 km
- [Kelly](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kelly) village and civil parish in Devon, UK 1.3 km
- [Chillaton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chillaton) village in Devon, England, UK 3.7 km

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