--- title: "Poughill – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Poughill, United Kingdom: Poughill is a village in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton, in the Cornwall district, in north-east Cornwall, England. Nearby…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/poughill" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/poughill.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Stained_glass_window_detail%2C_St_Olaf%27s_church%2C_Poughill_%2815616062237%29.jpg/1920px-Stained_glass_window_detail%2C_St_Olaf%27s_church%2C_Poughill_%2815616062237%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Cornwall, England · United Kingdom # Poughill Poughill is a village in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton, in the Cornwall district, in north-east Cornwall, England. ![Poughill](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Stained_glass_window_detail%2C_St_Olaf%27s_church%2C_Poughill_%2815616062237%29.jpg/1920px-Stained_glass_window_detail%2C_St_Olaf%27s_church%2C_Poughill_%2815616062237%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Poughill · Jules & Jenny from Lincoln, UK The place Poughill is a village in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton, in the Cornwall district, in north-east Cornwall, England. It is located one mile north of Bude. In 2015 it had an estimated population of 677. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poughill), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Poughill 7 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. Bude Canal The Bude Canal was a canal built to serve the hilly hinterland in the Cornwall and Devon border territory in the United Kingdom, chiefly to bring lime-bearing sand for agricultural fertiliser. The Bude Canal system was one of the most unusual in Britain. 2.1 km · Canal in Cornwall, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bude_Canal) 2. The Storm Tower The Storm Tower at Compass Point, Bude–Stratton, Cornwall, England, is an octagonal lookout tower, modelled on the Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece. It is known locally as the Pepperpot. 2.6 km · tower in Bude, Cornwall, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_Point_Storm_Tower) 3. St Michael and All Angels Church, Bude St Michael and All Angels Church is a Grade II listed church in Bude, Cornwall. 2.2 km · grade II listed church in Bude-Stratton, Cornwall, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael_and_All_Angels_Church,_Bude) 4. Sandymouth Beach Sandymouth is a beach three miles north of Bude in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. 3 km · sandy beach in Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandymouth_Beach) 5. St Andrew's Church, Bude St Andrew's Church is a Grade I listed church in Stratton, Bude, Cornwall. It is located along the main road in Stratton. 1.5 km · Grade I listed church in Bude-Stratton, United Kingdom · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Stratton) 6. St Olaf's Church, Bude St Olaf's Church is a Church of England parish church in Poughill, Bude, Cornwall. It is a Grade I listed building. 100 m · church in Cornwall, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Olaf%27s_Church,_Poughill) 7. Church of St Swithin St Swithin's Church, Launcells is a Grade I listed parish church in Launcells, Cornwall, England. The building dates from the 14th to 17th centuries and is primarily a late-medieval Perpendicular church with later alterations. 2.9 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Swithin%27s_Church,_Launcells) 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 Poughill **Airports:** Cardiff (CWL), 103 km · Bristol (BRS), 140 km · Birmingham (BHX), 262 km\ - Cardiff → Poughill 118 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £23–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-poughill) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Poughill) - Bristol → Poughill 151 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-poughill) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Poughill) - London → Poughill 316 km · quickest by road, 5h 3m · £33–45 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-poughill) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Poughill) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Poughill) 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 Poughill 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 Poughill. 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 39 km 2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 227 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 437 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 528 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 562 km If you know how people move in Poughill – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpoughill&title=Poughill&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpoughill), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Poughill - [Bude](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bude) town in Cornwall, England, UK 2.2 km - [Stratton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/stratton) town in Cornwall, England, UK 1.5 km - [Bude-Stratton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bude-stratton) civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK 1 km - [Flexbury](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/flexbury) village in Cornwall, UK 1.3 km - [Hersham](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hersham) hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK 3.6 km - [Maer](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/maer) village in Cornwall, United Kingdom 1.8 km [The place page for Poughill](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/poughill) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/poughill, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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