Skip to content
Mixroutes
Hamlet in Devon, England · United Kingdom

Tuckenhay

Tuckenhay is a hamlet in the South Hams in Devon, England, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Totnes.

Tuckenhay
Tuckenhay · Chris Light
The place

Tuckenhay is a hamlet in the South Hams in Devon, England, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Totnes. It lies on the south bank of Bow Creek, the estuary of the Harbourne River, which flows into the River Dart.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tuckenhay

One place 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
    Church of St David, Ashprington

    St David's Church in Ashprington, Devon, is a parish church in the Church of England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    1 km · church in Ashprington, 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 Tuckenhay

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 114 km · Bristol (BRS), 129 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 223 km
  • Cardiff → Tuckenhay
    126 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £20–27
  • Bristol → Tuckenhay
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–21
  • London → Tuckenhay
    277 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · £29–39
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

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 Tuckenhay

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    112 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    170 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    516 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    585 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    619 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tuckenhay

  • Stoke Gabrielvillage and civil parish in Devon, England, UK1.8 km
  • Ashpringtonvillage and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England900 m
  • Cornworthyvillage in Devon, England, UK1.1 km
  • Allaleighvillage in Devon, England, UK2.6 km
  • Captonvillage in Devon, England, UK3.5 km
  • Harbertonfordvillage in Harberton, South Hams, Devon, England3.5 km