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Widegates

Widegates is a village in south-east Cornwall, England, UK, about 4 miles north of Looe.

The place

Widegates is a village in south-east Cornwall, England, UK, about 4 miles north of Looe. It is on the A387 road about two miles west of Hessenford.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Widegates

4 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
    Church of St Martin by Looe

    St Martin's Church is a parish church in the hamlet of St Martin, Looe, Cornwall, in the Church of England Diocese of Truro.

    3.9 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Adrenalin Quarry

    Adrenalin Quarry is a family-owned visitor attraction and adventure park in Menheniot, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It opened in Easter 2009, on the site of an old flooded quarry and offers five rides: The Aquapark, The Zip, The Giant Swing, Axe throwing and Karting.

    3.6 km · visitor attraction and adventure park in Menheniot, Cornwall, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Monkey Sanctuary

    The Monkey Sanctuary was a sanctuary founded in 1964 by Len Williams, father of classical guitarist John Williams, as a cooperative to care for rescued woolly monkeys. Based in Looe, Cornwall, it was home to woolly monkeys descended from the original residents, capuchin monkeys rescued from the British pet trade, marmosets, and a small group of macaques.

    3.2 km · zoo in Cornwall, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Anne

    St Anne's Church is a former Church of England parish church in the village of Hessenford in Cornwall. It is dedicated to St Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.

    2 km · church in Hessenford, Cornwall, 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.

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Getting to Widegates

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 134 km · Bristol (BRS), 162 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 216 km
Stations
Sandplace railway station, 4 km · Menheniot railway station, 3.7 km
  • Cardiff → Widegates
    148 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · £24–32
  • Bristol → Widegates
    156 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £17–23
  • London → Widegates
    325 km · quickest by road, 5h 56m · £33–45
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Widegates

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

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    89 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    222 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    475 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    578 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    612 km

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

Around it

Next door to Widegates

  • Morvalhamlet and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom2.9 km
  • Deviockhamlet in Cornwall, UK1.9 km
  • St Martin-by-Looecivil parish in Cornwall, England, UK3.7 km
  • Hessenfordvillage in Cornwall, England, UK1.9 km
  • Seatonvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3.7 km
  • No Man's Landvillage in Cornwall, England, UK1.6 km