Torteval
Torteval is the smallest of the ten parishes of Guernsey, one of the western parishes.
Torteval is the smallest of the ten parishes of Guernsey, one of the western parishes. Its name comes from the Guernésiais words for "twisting valley". The parish is split in two by the parish of St. Pierre du Bois, with the part in the east known as Torteval. The detached peninsula to the west is named Pleinmont-Torteval. It includes the westernmost point in Guernsey, and a nature reserve. The reserve, designed for birds in the 1970s, was to be redeveloped for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.
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Worth seeing in and around Torteval
6 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.
- 01Le Creux ès Faïes
Le Creux ès Faïes is a Neolithic chamber tomb on Guernsey, the Channel Islands.
3.1 km · archaeological site in Saint Peter's, Guernsey · Wikipedia - 02Les Hanois Lighthouse
Les Hanois Lighthouse was constructed between 1860 and 1862 to a design by James Walker, and was first lit on 8 December 1862. It is sited on the rock known as Le Biseau, or Le Bisé, part of the reef Les Hanois 1 mile north west of Pleinmont where the Trinity House cottages were built.
3.9 km · lighthouse in Guernsey · Wikipedia - 03Fort Grey
Fort Grey, colloquially known as the "cup and saucer", is a Martello tower located on a tidal rock in Rocquaine Bay in Saint Peter, Guernsey on the west coast of the island.
500 m · fort in St. Peter, Guernsey · Wikipedia - 04German Occupation Museum
The German Occupation Museum of Guernsey illustrates the First and Second World War, when the German Wehrmacht had occupied the British Channel Islands. The occupation began at 30 June 1940, as the first Ju-52 of the Luftwaffe landed at the Guernsey airfield, and ended on 9 May 1945, one day after the German Instrument of Surrender, when British troops entered the island and interned the occupying German troops.
3.8 km · Channel Islands WWII museum · Wikipedia - 05Fort Saumarez
Fort Saumarez is a Martello tower in Saint Peter, Guernsey, on a headland that forms the northern tip of L'Erée and extends to the Lihou causeway.
3.2 km · Martello Tower · Wikipedia - 06Chapel of St Apolline, Guernsey
The Chapel of St Apolline, La Grande Rue, Saint Saviour, Guernsey is a protected building and historic monument. Constructed in the 14th century, it is still in regular use for worship.
3.2 km · Historic chapel in Guernsey · Wikipedia
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Getting to Torteval
- Airports
- Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 169 km · Bristol (BRS), 217 km · Cardiff (CWL), 224 km
- Stations
- Guernsey Airport, 3.2 km
- Brest → Torteval1867 km · quickest by road, 29h 8m · $180–245
- London → Torteval292 km · quickest by road, 9h 16m · £36–48
- Bristol → Torteval225 km · quickest by road, 9h 57m · £42–55
- 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 Torteval
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 Torteval. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThey also fly to and from Jersey and Alderney, and a day trip is possible.
- Get inLoganair flights from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle upon Tyne connect in Southampton with the Blue Islands direct flight.There are several flights daily between Guernsey and Jersey and a day trip is possible.
- Get inBrittany Ferries took over Condor in 2025.
- Get inThese ferries are year-round and take vehicles, with daily sailings in summer, but the fast-cat from Poole is more likely to be cancelled in bad weather.
- Get inThese are for foot-passengers only and are scheduled for day trips from Normandy, with one outward sailing in the morning and one return late afternoon.
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Next door to Torteval
- Saint Saviourparish of Guernsey2.8 km
- Saint Peter'sparish of Guernsey1.3 km
- Forestparish in Guernsey3.5 km