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Birmingham 3hrs 20mins
Brighton 4hrs 30mins
Bristol 2hrs
Cambridge 4hrs 50mins
Cardiff 2hrs 30mins
Edinburgh 8hrs
Exeter 30mins
Glasgow 7hrs 50mins
Leeds 5hrs
Leicester 4hrs
Liverpool 4hrs 45mins
London 3hrs 30mins
Manchester 4hrs 40mins
Newcastle 6hrs 40mins
Newquay 1hr 45mins
Norwich 6hrs
Nottingham 4hrs
Oxford 3hrs 15 mins
Plymouth 40mins
St Ives, Cornwall 2hrs
Sheffield 4hrs 40mins
Southampton 3hrs
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By car
The M4 from London, the M6 from the North West and the M1/M42 from the North East link up with the M5 to Devon, from where you can join the A30 to Moretonhampstead, our nearest town. North Bovey is a five-minute drive from here.
By train
Regular services leave London Paddington and London Waterloo for Exeter St Davids and Newton Abbot, and take about two-and-a-half hours. Singles start at £12. Due to the remoteness of the cottage, we recommend hiring a car. Abbeyford Car Hire deliver vehicles to Exeter St Davids station (01392 214242, www.abbeyfordcarhire.co.uk); Practical Car Rental is based in Newton Abbot (01626 331591, www.practical.co.uk). Prices start from £30 a day. For taxis, call Trevor on 01647 441143 (based in North Bovey) or David on 07905 612824 (based in Newton Abbot). Fares to North Bovey from Exeter are about £35, and £25 from Newton Abbot.
By air
The nearest international airports are Exeter (a 40-minute drive away), Plymouth (50 mins), and Bristol (1hr 50 mins). The cottage is a three-hour drive from London Heathrow and is four hours from Gatwick airport. Services into Plymouth arrive from London Gatwick, Manchester, Leeds Bradford, Bristol and Jersey with Air SouthWest. Exeter has services from Aberdeen, Alicante, Amsterdam, Avignon, Belfast City, Bergerac, Brest, Chambery, Dublin, Edinburgh, Faro, Geneva, Glasgow International, Guernsey, Jersey, Leeds Bradford, Malaga, Manchester, Newcastle, Nice, Norwich, Palma Mallorca, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Rennes and Salzburg with Flybe.
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