Buckfastleigh
Buckfastleigh is a market town and civil parish in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park. It is part of Teignbridge and, for ecclesiastical purposes, lies within the Totnes Deanery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 3,630 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Devon, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Buckfastleigh, Devon” and “East Buckfastleigh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Buckfast Abbey and Reed’s Cave.
Buckfast Abbey
Church
Photo: Necrothesp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfast, near Buckfastleigh, Devon, England. Buckfast first became home to an abbey in 1018.
Reed’s Cave
Cave
Photo: John Rostron, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Reed's cave is a cave in Higher Kiln Quarry near Buckfastleigh, Dartmoor, Devon. It has many formations including the unique Little Man formation, which is beyond Easter Chamber.
Buckfastleigh railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buckfastleigh railway station is situated on the South Devon Railway, a heritage railway in Devon, England. It serves the town of Buckfastleigh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ashburton.
Ashburton
Photo: Mike Crowe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashburton is a town on the south-southeastern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England, adjacent to the A38. The town is 20 miles northeast of Plymouth and 17 miles southwest of Exeter.
Buckfastleigh
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Teignbridge District, Dartmoor, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.4813° or 50° 28′ 53″ northLongitude
-3.7781° or 3° 46′ 41″ westPopulation
3,630Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BFGOpen location code
9C2RF6JC+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 28375331OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Buckfastleigh” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Buckfastleigh”
- Basque: “Buckfasleigh”
- Cebuano: “Buckfastleigh”
- Chinese: “Buckfastleigh”
- Chinese: “巴克法斯特”
- Chinese: “巴克法斯特利”
- Dutch: “Buckfastleigh”
- French: “Buckfastleigh”
- German: “Buckfastleigh”
- Irish: “Buckfastleigh Thoir”
- Irish: “Buckfastleigh”
- Italian: “Buckfastleigh”
- Italian: “East Buckfastleigh”
- Ladin: “Buckfastleigh”
- Latin: “Buckfastleigh”
- Latin: “Buffestra”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Buckfastleigh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buckfastleigh”
- Persian: “باکفستلی”
- Polish: “Buckfastleigh”
- Romanian: “Buckfastleigh”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Buckfastleigh”
- South Azerbaijani: “باکفستلی”
- Spanish: “Buckfastleigh”
- Swedish: “Buckfastleigh”
- Turkish: “Buckfastleigh”
- Welsh: “Buckfastleigh”
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