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# Moretonhampstead

Moretonhampstead is a market town, parish and ancient manor in Devon, situated on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor, within the Dartmoor National Park.

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## Every way there

- Cardiff → Moretonhampstead 100 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-moretonhampstead) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Moretonhampstead)
- Bristol → Moretonhampstead 120 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £14–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-moretonhampstead) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Moretonhampstead)
- London → Moretonhampstead 271 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · £28–37 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-moretonhampstead) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Moretonhampstead)

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

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What Moretonhampstead has

- Y Scheduled flights Cardiff (CWL), 87 km
- F Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
- Y Ferries Exeter Quay, 18 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, 18 km.

50.660°, -3.767°

The parish now includes the hamlet Doccombe, and it is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes Drewsteignton, Dunsford, Bridford, Bovey Tracey, Lustleigh, North Bovey and Chagford.

Get in

## Getting to Moretonhampstead

Take the B3212 from Exeter or A382 from Newton Abbot. 359 direct from Exeter to Moretonhampstead, 5 per day (except Sunday). 173 indirect from Exeter via Drewsteignton and Chagford, 4 per day (except Sunday).

See

## Worth seeing

1. Almshouses Cross St, TQ13 8NN (in front of the church of St Andrew).
2. Bowring Library
3. Dartmoor Pony Statues Pound St, TQ13 8NX.
4. Moretonhampstead Motor Museum The Old Bus Depot, Court Street,TQ13 8LG, moretonhampsteadmotormuseum@gmail.com.
5. Cranbrook Castle A prehistoric hill fort.

Do

## Things to do

Moretonhampstead has an annual carnival, held in the fourth week in August.

1. Hingston Down Hingston Down is topped by Hingston Rocks 325 m (1,066 ft) high with views over Moretonhampton.
2. Moretonhampstead Swimming Pool 25-metre open-air swimming pool: heated by air source heat pumps and solar power to 27 °C.
3. Moretonhampstead World of Hair

How locals move

## Getting around Moretonhampstead 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/Moretonhampstead) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Moretonhampstead), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Partonez (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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