Stoke Gabriel
Stoke Gabriel is a village and parish in Devon, England, situated on a creek of the River Dart.
Stoke Gabriel is a village and parish in Devon, England, situated on a creek of the River Dart. The village is a popular tourist destination in the South Hams and is famous for its mill pond and crab fishing. It is equidistant from Paignton, Dartmouth and Totnes, and has a population of approximately 1,200, reducing slightly to 1,107 at the 2011 census. The village is the major part of the electoral ward of East Dart. The ward population at the abovementioned census was 1,877.
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Worth seeing in and around Stoke Gabriel
4 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.
- 01Paignton Zoo
Paignton Zoo is a zoo in Paignton, Devon, England, operated by Dutch leisure company Libéma since January 2026. The zoo houses a collection of approximately 1,876 animals representing nearly 189 species, and cultivates about 1,600 different species of plant across its 80-acre site.
3.9 km · zoo in the UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary, Collaton St Mary
The Church of St Mary, in the village of Collaton St Mary in Devon, was built between 1864 and 1866 in memory of Mary Maxwell Hogg, teenaged daughter of the Rev John Roughton Hogg, owner of the nearby Blagdon Barton estate, and granddaughter of hymnwriter and vicar Henry Francis Lyte. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.7 km · church in Torbay, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St David, Ashprington
St David's Church in Ashprington, Devon, is a parish church in the Church of England. It is a Grade I listed building.
3 km · church in Ashprington, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Sandridge Park
Sandridge Park, near Stoke Gabriel, Devon, is an English country house in the Italianate style, designed by John Nash around 1805 for the Dowager Lady Ashburton, née Elizabeth Baring, the wife of John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton. It is a Grade II* listed building.
1.3 km · country house in Stoke Gabriel, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stoke Gabriel
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 112 km · Bristol (BRS), 126 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 225 km
- Stations
- Greenway Halt railway station, 3.9 km
- Cardiff → Stoke Gabriel124 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £19–26
- Bristol → Stoke Gabriel137 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £15–20
- London → Stoke Gabriel274 km · quickest by road, 5h 11m · £29–38
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stoke Gabriel
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 Gabriel. 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
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Next door to Stoke Gabriel
- Dittishamvillage in Devon, UK2.3 km
- Ashpringtonvillage and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England3.5 km
- Cornworthyvillage in Devon, England, UK2.7 km
- Tuckenhayhamlet in Devon, England3.2 km
- Collaton St Maryvillage in Devon2.9 km
- Aishhamlet in Stoke Gabriel, Devon, England, UK1.8 km