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Village and beach in Cornwall, England · United Kingdom

# Widemouth Bay

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

![Widemouth Bay](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/WidemouthBay2009.jpg)

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widemouth_Bay), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Winwaloe%27s_Church,_Poundstock)

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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-widemouth-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Widemouth+Bay)
- Bristol → Widemouth Bay 155 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-widemouth-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Widemouth+Bay)
- London → Widemouth Bay 319 km · quickest by road, 5h 6m · £34–45 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-widemouth-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Widemouth+Bay)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Widemouth%20Bay)

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 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. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 44 km
2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 229 km
3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 439 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 534 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 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](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cwidemouth-bay&title=Widemouth+Bay&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fwidemouth-bay), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Widemouth Bay

- [Bude](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bude) town in Cornwall, England, UK 3.9 km
- [Poundstock](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/poundstock) hamlet in Cornwall, United Kingdom 2.6 km
- [Marhamchurch](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/marhamchurch) civil parish and village in north Cornwall, England 2.9 km
- [Bangors](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bangors) village in Cornwall, United Kingdom 3.4 km
- [Box's Shop](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boxs-shop) village in Cornwall, United Kingdom 1.5 km
- [Millook](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/millook) hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK 2.5 km

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