South Tawton
South Tawton is a village, parish and former manor on the north edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England.
South Tawton is a village, parish and former manor on the north edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England. An electoral ward bearing the same name exists. At the 2011 census the population was 1,683.
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Worth seeing in and around South Tawton
One place 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.
- 01Church of St Mary the Virgin
St Mary's Church dates from the late 13th-century, and is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Throwleigh, Devon.
3.3 km · church in Throwleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to South Tawton
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 84 km · Bristol (BRS), 110 km · Birmingham (BHX), 243 km
- Cardiff → South Tawton96 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £19–25
- Bristol → South Tawton121 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–19
- London → South Tawton276 km · quickest by road, 5h 3m · £28–38
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for South Tawton
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 South Tawton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBrittany Ferries carry vehicles and foot passengers to Plymouth from Roscoff, Saint-Malo (both France), or Santander (Spain).
- Get inPoole in Dorset is by road from Exeter, and receives Brittany Ferries from Cherbourg (France) and Condor Ferries from Saint Helier (Jersey).
- Get inThe other English Channel ferry ports are within a few hours' drive of Devon.
From Wikivoyage: Devon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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- Throwleighvillage and civil parish in Devon, UK3.5 km
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