Events at this location

The beautiful and extensive gardens at Bowringsleigh will
be open to the public from 2pm to 5pm on Sunday 29th May. With the stunning
backdrop of the Grade 1 Listed Elizabethan House (not open to the public), the
gardens will be open for viewing, with teas and homemade cakes.  Admission
is £5 per person, children free.  Free parking.  Limited wheelchair
access.  Dogs are allowed on leads.  All funds raised will be given
to Children’s Hospice South West to help provide specialist care and support
for over 500 families with life-limited children in the South West –
making the most of short and precious lives.  For more information please
contact Anne on 01548 852774.

The Running Day, centred on Kingsbridge Bus Station on the Quay in the town centre, will be on Saturday 17th September with services running from 10.00 until 17.30. This gives the visiting public the opportunity to ride on a range of vehicles to spectacular coast and country destinations all around Kingsbridge and the South Hams.

The routes we plan to use are those formerly operated by the Great Western Railway Road Motors, the Western National Omnibus Company and other local operators such as Tally Ho Coaches. Services to East Portlemouth, South Pool, Goveton, Slapton, Salcombe, Hope Cove, Thurlestone, Bantham, Loddiswell, California Cross and East Allington are being scheduled, some with additional journeys and/or with changed timing due to recent timetable changes on Stagecoach services. The circular services will include Coleridge Community Bus route 1 from Kingsbridge to Slapton, East Allington, Goveton and Ledstone and ‘school’ service TNS004 through the Avon Valley coupled with pre-war rail replacement route 177 from South Brent.

In addition there will be several short workings including a town service with round trip times of less than 30 minutes to enable sampling a greater number of vehicles over the course of the day. A number of routes will also have duplicates so that passengers can change vehicles at outer termini. There will also be coach excursions to Blackpool Sands.