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Powderham

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

Powderham
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Powderham 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
  2. 02
    Exeter 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
  3. 03
    A 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
  4. 04
    Bridge 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
  5. 05
    Broadway 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
  6. 06
    Parish 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
  7. 07
    Clara 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
  8. 08
    St 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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Go there

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 → Powderham
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £16–22
  • Bristol → Powderham
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £12–16
  • London → Powderham
    252 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · £26–34
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextLand's End is not that far from Dawlish, and visiting it could be a day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Dawlish, 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

    103 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    152 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    510 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    559 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    594 km

If you know how people move in Powderham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Powderham

  • Exminstervillage in Devon, England, UK3.8 km
  • Lympstonevillage in East Devon, England2.4 km
  • Kentonvillage in Devon, England, United Kingdom1.2 km
  • Starcrossvillage in Devon, England, UK2.8 km
  • Extonvillage in Devon, England, UK2.9 km
  • Cockwoodvillage in Devon, England, UK3.8 km