Powderham
Powderham is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district, in the county of Devon, England.

Powderham is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district, in the county of Devon, England. It is about 6 miles from Exeter. The parish borders Exminster, Kenn, Kenton and Woodbury. In 2021 the parish had a population of 99. Powderham has a parish meeting rather than a parish council. There are 24 listed buildings in Powderham. Powderham has a castle called Powderham Castle and a church called St Clement's Church.
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Worth seeing in and around Powderham
8 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.
- 01Powderham Castle
Powderham Castle is a fortified manor house in the civil parish of Powderham, Devon, 6 miles south of Exeter and 1⁄4 mile north-east of the village of Kenton, where the main public entrance gates are located. It is a Grade I listed building.
800 m · Grade I listed historic house museum in Teignbridge, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Exeter Ship Canal
The Exeter Ship Canal, also known as the Exeter Canal, is a canal leading from the River Exe to Exeter Quay in the city of Exeter, Devon, England. It was first constructed in the 1560s, predating the "canal mania" period, and is one of the oldest artificial waterways in the UK. As built, it contained the first pound locks to be built in Britain.
1.8 km · canal in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03A La Ronde
A la Ronde is an 18th-century, 16-sided cottage orné near Lympstone, Exmouth, Devon, England, in the ownership of the National Trust. The house was built for two spinster cousins, Jane and Mary Parminter.
3.9 km · Heritage Museum in South West England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Bridge Inn
The Bridge Inn is a Grade II listed public house at Bridge Hill, Topsham in the county of Devon, England. Mentioned as a dwelling in Domesday Book, the building was largely constructed in the 18th century of cob and stone, with a 19th-century brick addition.
3.9 km · Grade II listed public house in Topsham, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Broadway House
Broadway House is a building in Topsham, Devon. It was built in 1776 and is Grade II* listed.
4 km · house in Topsham, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Parish Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the parish church of Lympstone in Devon, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.6 km · church in Lympstone, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Clara Place
Clara Place is a garden square in Topsham, Devon. It was built in 1841 and is Grade II* listed.
3.9 km · house in Exeter, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08St Margaret's Church
St Margaret's Church in Topsham, Devon, is a parish church in the Church of England. It is a Grade II* listed building composed of a 14th-century Gothic tower and a 19th-century Gothic Revival main structure.
3.7 km · church in Topsham, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Powderham
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 84 km · Bristol (BRS), 97 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 229 km
- Stations
- Starcross railway station, 2.6 km · Lympstone Village railway station, 2.2 km · Lympstone Commando railway station, 2.1 km · Exton railway station, 2.5 km
- Cardiff → Powderham95 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £16–22
- Bristol → Powderham108 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £12–16
- London → Powderham252 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · £26–34
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No local-transport research exists yet for Powderham
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 Powderham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextLand's End is not that far from Dawlish, and visiting it could be a day trip.
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