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Torpoint

Torpoint is a town and civil parish on the Rame Peninsula in southeast Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Torpoint
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The place

Torpoint is a town and civil parish on the Rame Peninsula in southeast Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated opposite the city of Plymouth across the Hamoaze which is the tidal estuary of the River Tamar. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 7,444 and the built up area had a population of 7,160.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Torpoint

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
    University of Plymouth

    The University of Plymouth is a public research university based predominantly in Plymouth, England, where the main campus is located, but the university has campuses and affiliated colleges across South West England. With 18,410 students, it is the 57th largest in the United Kingdom by total number of students.

    4.7 km · university in Plymouth, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Home Park

    Home Park is a football stadium in the area of Milehouse, Plymouth, Devon, England. With a capacity of 17,900, the ground has been the home of Plymouth Argyle Football Club since 1903, and was also used between 1900 and 1903 by Argyle Athletic club and Argyle F.C. and for athletics and rugby.

    4.1 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Plymouth Cathedral

    The Cathedral Church of Saint Mary and Saint Boniface in Plymouth, England, is the seat of the Bishop of Plymouth and mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth, which covers the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. The Diocese of Plymouth was created in 1850 after the issuing of the papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae.

    3.8 km · Roman Catholic cathedral in Plymouth, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Trematon Castle

    Trematon Castle is situated near Saltash in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was the caput of the feudal barony of Trematon.

    3.6 km · a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ince Castle

    Ince Castle is three miles from Saltash in Cornwall, England, UK. It is not a castle in the conventional sense, but a manor house built of brick. It was built in 1642, at the start of the English Civil War and was captured in 1646.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed house in Saltash, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tamar Bridge

    The Tamar Bridge is a suspension bridge over the River Tamar between Saltash in Cornwall and Plymouth in Devon, South West England. It is 335 metres long, running adjacent to the Royal Albert Bridge and part of the A38, a main road between the two counties.

    3.6 km · suspension bridge in southwest England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Armada Memorial

    The Armada Memorial is a monument on Plymouth Hoe in Plymouth, Devon, England. Built in 1888, the monument celebrates the tercentenary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, which was sighted by English captains stationed in the city.

    4.6 km · monument in Plymouth, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Antony House

    Antony House is an early 18th-century property in the care of the National Trust. It is located between the town of Torpoint and the village of Antony in the county of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Mount Edgcumbe House

    Mount Edgcumbe House is a stately home in south-east Cornwall and is a Grade II listed building, whilst its gardens and parkland are listed as Grade I in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. Mount Edgcumbe Country Park is situated in the parish of Maker on the Rame Peninsula, overlooking Plymouth Sound; its main entrance is in the village of Cremyll.

    3.1 km · house museum in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Smeaton's Tower

    Smeaton's Tower is the reconstructed upper section of the third Eddystone Lighthouse, now a memorial to its designer, civil engineer John Smeaton. A major step forward in lighthouse design, Smeaton's structure was in use from 1759 to 1877, until erosion of the ledge it was built upon forced new construction.

    4.7 km · lighthouse in Devon, England, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Torpoint

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 129 km · Bristol (BRS), 153 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 215 km
Stations
Plymouth railway station, 4.4 km · Saltash railway station, 3.5 km · Keyham railway station, 2.4 km · Dockyard railway station, 2.2 km · Devonport railway station, 2.5 km
  • Cardiff → Torpoint
    142 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · £22–30
  • Bristol → Torpoint
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £18–24
  • London → Torpoint
    312 km · quickest by road, 5h 45m · £32–42
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Torpoint

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you are coming in by car but don't want to face the parking problems of the city-centre, there are also three main Park & Ride sites serving the city: (east near Plympton), (north) and (city centre) {{go | name | url | address | long | phone | hours | wikidata 2023-12-31 | content=Brittany Ferries operates services to Plymouth from Santander (22 hours) and Roscoff (6 hours during the day, 8 hours during the night).
  • Get inThe Ferry Terminal is to the west of the City Centre at the Millbay Docks, about (800 m) a mile walk from the Hoe and Central shopping precinct.
  • Get aroundOne of the most 'local' ways to get around is by water taxi or boat.
  • Get aroundThe two most popular services amongst locals are probably the Barbican-Mountbatten line and the Cremyll Ferry from Admiral's Hard to Mount Edgecumbe.
  • Get aroundThese can be relatively busy during the evenings and at rush hour; the Cremyll Ferry in particular can be quite full of school children at around 4pm during term time.

From Wikivoyage: Plymouth (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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If you know how people move in Torpoint – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Torpoint

  • Plymouthcity in Devon, England4.5 km
  • Saltashtown and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Millbrookcivil parish and village in Cornwall, England2.7 km
  • Antonyvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK3.4 km
  • St Johnvillage and civil parish in south east Cornwall, England in the United Kingdom2.9 km
  • Cawsandvillage in Cornwall5 km