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Widemouth Bay

Widemouth Bay is a bay, beach and small village on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Widemouth Bay
Widemouth Bay · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Widemouth Bay is a bay, beach and small village on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about 3 miles (5 km) south of Bude. This stretch of coast is steeped in smuggling history from previous centuries, and not far south of Widemouth Bay can be found many little inlets and coves.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Widemouth Bay

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
    St Winwaloe Church

    St Winwaloe's Church, Poundstock is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Poundstock, Cornwall.

    2.6 km · church in Poundstock, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Widemouth Bay

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 108 km · Bristol (BRS), 144 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 261 km
  • Cardiff → Widemouth Bay
    123 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £23–31
  • Bristol → Widemouth Bay
    155 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £19–25
  • London → Widemouth Bay
    319 km · quickest by road, 5h 6m · £34–45
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Widemouth Bay

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 Widemouth Bay. 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

    44 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    229 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    439 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    534 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    567 km

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

Around it

Next door to Widemouth Bay

  • Budetown in Cornwall, England, UK3.9 km
  • Poundstockhamlet in Cornwall, United Kingdom2.6 km
  • Marhamchurchcivil parish and village in north Cornwall, England2.9 km
  • Bangorsvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Box's Shopvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom1.5 km
  • Millookhamlet in Cornwall, England, UK2.5 km