Strete
Strete is a coastal village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England, on the coast of Start Bay, within the South Devon National Landscape.
Strete is a coastal village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England, on the coast of Start Bay, within the South Devon National Landscape.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Strete
2 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.
- 01Blackpool 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.
1.7 km · beach in Devon, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Slapton 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.
3.5 km · lake on the south coast of Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Strete
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 122 km · Bristol (BRS), 135 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 215 km
- Cardiff → Strete134 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · £21–28
- Bristol → Strete146 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £17–22
- London → Strete279 km · quickest by road, 5h 40m · £31–41
- 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 Strete
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 Strete. 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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If you know how people move in Strete – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Strete
- Stoke Flemingvillage and civil parish in Devon, United Kingdom2.2 km
- Slaptonvillage and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England, UK1.9 km
- Ashvillage in Devon, United Kingdom1.4 km
- Bowdenhamlet in Stoke Fleming, Devon, England, UK1.1 km
- Burlestonevillage in Devon, England, UK1.9 km