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South Zeal

South Zeal is a village on Dartmoor, in Devon, United Kingdom.

South Zeal
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The place

South Zeal is a village on Dartmoor, in Devon, United Kingdom.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around South Zeal

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.

  1. 01
    Church 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

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.

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Getting to South Zeal

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 85 km · Bristol (BRS), 111 km · Birmingham (BHX), 243 km
  • Cardiff → South Zeal
    98 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £19–25
  • Bristol → South Zeal
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–19
  • London → South Zeal
    278 km · quickest by road, 5h 3m · £28–38
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for South Zeal

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 Zeal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    73 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    184 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    479 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    545 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    580 km

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

Around it

Next door to South Zeal

  • Belstonevillage in Devon, England, UK3.1 km
  • South Tawtonvillage and civil parish in Devon, England, UK1 km
  • Throwleighvillage and civil parish in Devon, UK3.6 km
  • Sticklepathvillage in West Devon, England, UK1.6 km