--- title: "Torquay – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Torquay, United Kingdom: town. Nearby: Kents Cavern, Compton Castle, Plainmoor. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/torki" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/torki.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Town · United Kingdom · England # Torquay What is there ## 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. Kents Cavern Show cave in Devon, England, UK 1.7 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kents_Cavern) 2. Compton Castle Grade I listed historic house museum in South Hams, Devon, England, UK 5.4 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Castle) 3. Plainmoor Football stadium 1.6 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainmoor) 4. Paignton Zoo Zoo in the UK 5.6 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paignton_Zoo) 5. Torre Abbey House museum in Torquay, United Kingdom 1 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_Abbey) 6. Goodrington Sands Beach in Devon, England, UK 4.8 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodrington_Sands) 7. Living Coasts Zoo in Devon, England 400 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Coasts) 8. Oddicombe Beach Beach in Devon, England 2.4 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddicombe_Beach) 9. Kirkham House Late medieval stone house in Devon, England, UK 4.1 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkham_House) 10. Oldway Mansion House in Paignton, Devon, England, UK 3.7 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldway_Mansion) 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. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-torquay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Torquay) - Bristol → Torquay 128 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-torquay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Torquay) - London → Torquay 265 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · £28–37 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-torquay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Torquay) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Torquay) 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 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Go next Brixham – A small fishing town, reachable by ferry. From [Wikivoyage: Torquay](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Torquay), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 113 km 2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 159 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 519 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 579 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 614 km If you know how people move in Torquay – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ctorki&title=Torquay&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Ftorki), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Torquay - [Paignton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/paignton) town in Devon, England 4 km - [Torbay](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/torbay) borough in Devon, England 2.5 km - [Kingskerswell](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kingskerswell) village in Devon, UK 5 km - [Marldon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/marldon) village and civil parish in Devon, England 5.2 km - [Cockington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cockington) village in Torbay, Devon, United Kingdom 2.2 km - [Babbacombe Model Village](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/babbacombe-model-village) outdoor miniature village in south west England 2.3 km [The place page for Torquay](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/torki) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/torki, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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