Slapton, Devon
Slapton is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England.
Slapton is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England. It is located near the A379 road between Kingsbridge and Dartmouth, and lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The nearby beach is Slapton Sands; despite its name, it is not a sandy beach but a shingle one.
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Worth seeing in and around Slapton, Devon
2 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.
- 01Blackpool Sands
Blackpool Sands is a private shingle beach open to the public near Dartmouth, Devon. In 2024 it was named England’s best beach by Condé Nast Traveller.
3.6 km · beach in Devon, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Slapton Ley
Slapton Ley is a lake on the south coast of Devon, England, separated from Start Bay by a shingle beach, known as Slapton Sands. Slapton Ley is the largest natural freshwater lake in south-west England being 1.5 miles long and has two sections; the Lower Ley and the Higher Ley.
1.9 km · lake on the south coast of Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Slapton, Devon
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 124 km · Bristol (BRS), 137 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 213 km
- Cardiff → Slapton, Devon135 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · £21–28
- Bristol → Slapton, Devon148 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £17–22
- London → Slapton, Devon282 km · quickest by road, 5h 37m · £31–41
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No local-transport research exists yet for Slapton, Devon
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 Slapton, Devon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou can then travel the last few miles through breathtaking scenery to Kingswear before crossing the Dart on one of the ferries.
- Get aroundThe town is too small for a traveller to need a bus, by foot is the best way There is a ferry between the two sides of the valley, there is a small charge for crossing
From Wikivoyage: Dartmouth (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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