Stoke Fleming
Stoke Fleming is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England.
Stoke Fleming is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England. It lies on the A379 road about one and a half miles south of the town of Dartmouth, at the north end of Start Bay and within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In 2001 the parish had a population of 1,012, compared to 708 in 1901, reducing again to 803 at the 2011 census The parish is a major part of the Skerries electoral ward. The ward's total population at the same census was 1,927. Stoke Fleming a primary school, library and a football club.
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Worth seeing in and around Stoke Fleming
3 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.
- 01Dartmouth Castle
Dartmouth Castle is an artillery fort, built to protect Dartmouth harbour in Devon, England. The earliest parts of the castle date from the 1380s, when, in response to the threat of a French attack, the civic authorities created a small enclosure castle overlooking the mouth of the Dart estuary.
3.7 km · Grade I listed Device Fort in Dartmouth, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Blackpool 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.
700 m · beach in Devon, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Bayard's Cove Fort
Bayard's Cove Fort, also known historically as Berescove or Bearscore Castle, is an English 16th-century artillery blockhouse, built to defend the harbour entrance at Dartmouth in Devon. Constructed in the early part of the century, it had eleven gunports for heavy artillery and was intended to engage enemy vessels that broke past the external defences of the Dartmouth and Kingswear castles.
3.8 km · castle in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stoke Fleming
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 121 km · Bristol (BRS), 134 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 216 km
- Cardiff → Stoke Fleming132 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · £20–27
- Bristol → Stoke Fleming144 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £16–21
- London → Stoke Fleming277 km · quickest by road, 5h 34m · £30–40
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stoke Fleming
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 Stoke Fleming. 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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Next door to Stoke Fleming
- Kingswearvillage in Devon, UK4 km
- Stretevillage and civil parish in Devon, UK2.2 km
- Ashvillage in Devon, United Kingdom2.9 km
- Bowdenhamlet in Stoke Fleming, Devon, England, UK2.2 km
- Burlestonevillage in Devon, England, UK3.6 km