Throwleigh
Throwleigh is a village and civil parish located 3 miles from Chagford and 6 miles from Okehampton, in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England.
Throwleigh is a village and civil parish located 3 miles from Chagford and 6 miles from Okehampton, in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. The parish incorporates the village of Throwleigh and the hamlets of Wonson, Providence, and Murchington, whose combined population is approximately 350.
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Worth seeing in and around Throwleigh
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.
- 01Gidleigh Castle
Gidleigh Castle was the manor house of the manor of Gidleigh on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor, about two miles north-west of the town of Chagford, Devon, England.
2.2 km · Grade I listed castle in Gidleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church 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.
400 m · church in Throwleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of the Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity Church, Gidleigh dates from the late 15th-century, and is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Gidleigh, Devon.
2.2 km · church in Gidleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Throwleigh
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 86 km · Bristol (BRS), 111 km · Birmingham (BHX), 245 km
- Cardiff → Throwleigh100 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £19–25
- Bristol → Throwleigh123 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £14–19
- London → Throwleigh278 km · quickest by road, 5h 7m · £28–38
- 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 Throwleigh
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 Throwleigh. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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