Townstal
Townstal is an historic manor and parish on elevated ground now forming part of the western suburbs of the town of Dartmouth, in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England.
Townstal is an historic manor and parish on elevated ground now forming part of the western suburbs of the town of Dartmouth, in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England.
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Worth seeing in and around Townstal
8 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.
- 01Dartmouth Castle
Dartmouth Castle is an artillery fort, built to protect Dartmouth harbour in Devon, England. The earliest parts of the castle date from the 1380s, when, in response to the threat of a French attack, the civic authorities created a small enclosure castle overlooking the mouth of the Dart estuary.
2.1 km · Grade I listed Device Fort in Dartmouth, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Kingswear Castle
Kingswear Castle is an artillery fort, built to protect Dartmouth harbour in Devon, England. It was constructed between 1491 and 1502 in response to the threat of French attack and was one of the first purpose-built artillery forts in Britain.
2.5 km · Grade I listed castle in South Hams, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Kingswear
The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is situated in the village of Kingswear in the English county of Devon, it stands in a slightly elevated position at the junction of Higher Street and Church Hill close to the railway station and the Dartmouth Lower Ferry and overlooks the River Dart. The church is a grade II listed building.
1.4 km · church in Kingswear, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Blackpool Sands
Blackpool Sands is a private shingle beach open to the public near Dartmouth, Devon. In 2024 it was named England’s best beach by Condé Nast Traveller.
3.9 km · beach in Devon, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Dartmouth Steam Railway
The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a 6.7-mile heritage railway on the former Great Western Railway branch line between Paignton and Kingswear in Devon, England. Much of the railway's business is from summer tourists from the resorts of Torbay, who travel to Kingswear, where the Dartmouth Passenger Ferry takes them across the River Dart to Dartmouth.
2.6 km · heritage railway in Devon, England · Wikipedia - 06Bayard's Cove Fort
Bayard's Cove Fort, also known historically as Berescove or Bearscore Castle, is an English 16th-century artillery blockhouse, built to defend the harbour entrance at Dartmouth in Devon. Constructed in the early part of the century, it had eleven gunports for heavy artillery and was intended to engage enemy vessels that broke past the external defences of the Dartmouth and Kingswear castles.
1.1 km · castle in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Dartmouth Museum
Dartmouth Museum is a local museum in Dartmouth, Devon, which displays and chronicles the history of the port of Dartmouth. It moved to its current location in the 1950s and is housed in a merchant's house, No.
900 m · local museum in Devon, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Saviour
St Saviour’s Church, Dartmouth is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in Dartmouth, Devon.
900 m · church in Dartmouth, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Townstal
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 117 km · Bristol (BRS), 130 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 220 km
- Stations
- Kingswear railway station, 1.4 km · Dartmouth railway station, 1 km · Greenway Halt railway station, 4 km
- Cardiff → Townstal129 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · £20–27
- Bristol → Townstal141 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £15–21
- London → Townstal275 km · quickest by road, 5h 28m · £29–39
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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 Townstal
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 Townstal. 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
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