Torquay

Worth seeing in and around Torquay

10 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.

1. 01
   Kents Cavern

   Show cave in Devon, England, UK

   1.7 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Compton Castle

   Grade I listed historic house museum in South Hams, Devon, England, UK

   5.4 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Plainmoor

   Football stadium

   1.6 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Paignton Zoo

   Zoo in the UK

   5.6 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Torre Abbey

   House museum in Torquay, United Kingdom

   1 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Goodrington Sands

   Beach in Devon, England, UK

   4.8 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Living Coasts

   Zoo in Devon, England

   400 m · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Oddicombe Beach

   Beach in Devon, England

   2.4 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Kirkham House

   Late medieval stone house in Devon, England, UK

   4.1 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Oldway Mansion

    House in Paignton, Devon, England, UK

    3.7 km · 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.

Getting to Torquay

Airports

Cardiff (CWL), 105 km · Bristol (BRS), 117 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 233 km

Stations

Paignton railway station, 4.1 km · Torquay railway station, 1.3 km · Torre railway station, 2 km · Goodrington Sands railway station, 4.9 km

• Cardiff → Torquay

  116 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £19–25
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• Bristol → Torquay

  128 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £14–19
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• London → Torquay

  265 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · £28–37
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No local-transport research exists yet for Torquay

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

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