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Pillaton

Pillaton is a village and civil parish in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

The place

Pillaton is a village and civil parish in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pillaton

3 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. 01
    Church of St Mellanus

    St Mellanus church is a Grade I listed parish church in Mullion, on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, England. The present building dates primarily from the 15th and early 16th centuries and includes a west tower, north and south aisles, and a south porch.

    2.5 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Newton Ferrers House

    Newton Ferrers House, Newton Ferrers, St Mellion, Cornwall, was built by Sir William Coryton, a lawyer and politician. The house was built between 1685 and 1695 and was one of the earliest in Cornwall to move from a Tudor to a Classical style.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed house in St Mellion, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Michael

    St Michael's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in Landrake, a village in south-east Cornwall, England. The church includes some 13th-century stonework, but most of the present building dates from rebuilding and expansion in the late 14th and 15th centuries in the Perpendicular Gothic style.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed church in Landrake with St Erney, 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 Pillaton

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 124 km · Bristol (BRS), 152 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 223 km
  • Cardiff → Pillaton
    139 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · £23–31
  • Bristol → Pillaton
    163 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £19–25
  • London → Pillaton
    315 km · quickest by road, 5h 46m · £33–44
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pillaton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    84 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    213 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    476 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    572 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    606 km

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Around it

Next door to Pillaton

  • Landrakevillage in Cornwall3.8 km
  • Landrake with St Erneycivil parish in Cornwall, England3.9 km
  • Bluntsvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Bealburyhamlet in Cornwall, England, UK1.8 km
  • Hattvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Penpollsettlement in Quethiock, Cornwall, England, UK3.2 km