Torcross
Torcross is a seaside village in the South Hams district of south Devon in England.
Torcross is a seaside village in the South Hams district of south Devon in England. It stands at grid reference SX822420 at the southern end of Slapton Sands, a narrow strip of land and shingle beach which separates the freshwater lake of Slapton Ley from Start Bay and carries the A379 coastal road north to Dartmouth.
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Worth seeing in and around Torcross
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.
- 01Slapton 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.
1.9 km · lake on the south coast of Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Torcross
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 128 km · Bristol (BRS), 140 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 210 km
- Cardiff → Torcross139 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · £22–30
- Bristol → Torcross152 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £18–24
- London → Torcross283 km · quickest by road, 5h 48m · £32–42
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Torcross
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 Torcross. 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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- Hallsandsvillage in Devon, England, UK3.3 km
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- Beesandsvillage in Devon, England, UK1.5 km