Sourton
Sourton is a small village and civil parish in West Devon, England. It lies about 4 miles south-west of Okehampton. It is at the north-western extremity of Dartmoor, a National Park of England and Wales, and lies along the A386 road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 445 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Devon, UK
- Also known as: “Sourton, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and The Highwayman.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bridestowe and Meldon.
Bridestowe
Village
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bridestowe is a civil parish and village in the district of West Devon, Devon, England. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Bratton Clovelly, Sourton, Bridestowe and Sourton Common, Lydford, Lewtrenchard and Thrushelton.
Meldon
Hamlet
Photo: Seglea, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Meldon is a hamlet in West Devon, on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. It is 4 km south-west of Okehampton. Its main features are the Meldon Quarry and Meldon Reservoir and the nearby Meldon Viaduct. Meldon is situated 2 miles northeast of Sourton.
Lydford
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lydford is a village in Dartmoor, the English county of Devon. The village sits within Dartmoor National Park.
Sourton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Sourton, West Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.69342° or 50° 41′ 36″ northLongitude
-4.07659° or 4° 4′ 36″ westPopulation
445Elevation
817 feet (249 metres)Open location code
9C2QMWVF+99OpenStreetMap ID
node 2494277164OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2637495Wikidata ID
Q7565221
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Sourton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sourton”
- Chinese: “Sourton”
- Dutch: “Sourton”
- French: “Sourton”
- Irish: “Sourton”
- Italian: “Sourton”
- Ladin: “Sourton”
- Low German: “Sourton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sourton”
- Persian: “سورتون”
- Polish: “Sourton”
- Swedish: “Sourton”
- Turkish: “Sourton”
- Welsh: “Sourton”
- “Sourton”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sourton”. Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.