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# Gidleigh

Gidleigh is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England.

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## Every way there

- Cardiff → Gidleigh 102 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-gidleigh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Gidleigh)
- Bristol → Gidleigh 125 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-gidleigh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Gidleigh)
- London → Gidleigh 278 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · £28–38 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-gidleigh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Gidleigh)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Gidleigh, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Gidleigh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gidleigh)

What Gidleigh has

- Y Scheduled flights Cardiff (CWL), 88 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Exeter Quay, 25 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Exeter, 25 km.

50.680°, -3.881°

Located within Dartmoor National Park, the parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Throwleigh, Chagford and Dartmoor Forest. In 2001 its population was 116, little changed from 114 in 1901.

How locals move

## Getting around Gidleigh the local way

- Get in Brittany Ferries carry vehicles and foot passengers to Plymouth from Roscoff, Saint-Malo (both France), or Santander (Spain).
- Get in Poole in Dorset is by road from Exeter, and receives Brittany Ferries from Cherbourg (France) and Condor Ferries from Saint Helier (Jersey).
- Get in The other English Channel ferry ports are within a few hours' drive of Devon.

From [Wikivoyage: Devon](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Devon), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gidleigh), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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