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Stokenham

Stokenham is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England.

Stokenham
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The place

Stokenham is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 1,895.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stokenham

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
    Slapton 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.

    2.2 km · lake on the south coast of 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 Stokenham

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 127 km · Bristol (BRS), 141 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 210 km
  • Cardiff → Stokenham
    141 km · quickest by road, 4h · £22–30
  • Bristol → Stokenham
    152 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £17–23
  • London → Stokenham
    285 km · quickest by road, 5h 51m · £32–42
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stokenham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    122 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    174 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    523 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    598 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    632 km

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

Around it

Next door to Stokenham

  • Slaptonvillage and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England, UK3.7 km
  • South Poolvillage and civil parish in Devon, England, UK3.7 km
  • Frogmore and Sherfordcivil parish in Devon, UK3 km
  • Chillingtonvillage in Devon, United Kingdom1 km
  • Fordhamlet in Chivelstone, South Hams, Devon, England2.7 km
  • Beesandsvillage in Devon, England, UK2.7 km