Whiddon Down
Whiddon Down is a hamlet within the parish of Drewsteignton in Devon.
Whiddon Down is a hamlet within the parish of Drewsteignton in Devon. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 267.
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Worth seeing in and around Whiddon Down
2 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.
- 01Castle Drogo
Castle Drogo is a country house and mixed-revivalist castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. Constructed between 1911 and 1930, it is the last castle built in England.
4 km · country house in the form of a castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary the Virgin
St Mary's Church dates from the late 13th-century, and is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Throwleigh, Devon.
2.8 km · church in Throwleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Whiddon Down
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 84 km · Bristol (BRS), 109 km · Birmingham (BHX), 242 km
- Cardiff → Whiddon Down97 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £18–25
- Bristol → Whiddon Down120 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–19
- London → Whiddon Down275 km · quickest by road, 4h 57m · £28–37
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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 Whiddon Down
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 Whiddon Down. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBrittany Ferries carry vehicles and foot passengers to Plymouth from Roscoff, Saint-Malo (both France), or Santander (Spain).
- Get inPoole in Dorset is by road from Exeter, and receives Brittany Ferries from Cherbourg (France) and Condor Ferries from Saint Helier (Jersey).
- Get inThe other English Channel ferry ports are within a few hours' drive of Devon.
From Wikivoyage: Devon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Whiddon Down
- South Tawtonvillage and civil parish in Devon, England, UK3.4 km
- Throwleighvillage and civil parish in Devon, UK2.7 km