Devon
North Devon District
Parracombe

Parracombe

Parracombe is a rural settlement 4 miles south-west of , in , England. It is situated in the Heddon Valley, on . The population at the 2011 census was 293.
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  • Type: Village with 306 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Devon, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Paracombe” and “Parracombe, Devon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Christ Church and Fox and Goose Inn.

Church
Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.

Guest house
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a guest house.

Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Petrock's Church in Parracombe, , England was built in the 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lynton and Lynmouth and Barbrook.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a civil parish in the district of , England. The parish is named after its two main settlements of , which stands on a plateau above the Glen Lyn Gorge, and which lies at the foot of the gorge where the West Lyn River and East Lyn River converge and then meet the sea.

Village
Photo: Grant Sherman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England. It is close to the source of the West Lyn River. The village post office and shop closed on 27 September 2008. is situated 3½ miles northeast of Parracombe.

Locality
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The Valley of Rocks, sometimes called , is a dry valley that runs parallel to the coast in north , England, about 1 kilometre to the west of the village of . is situated 4 miles northeast of Parracombe.

Parracombe

Latitude
51.1872° or 51° 11′ 14″ north
Longitude
-3.90745° or 3° 54′ 27″ west
Population
306
Elevation
676 feet (206 metres)
Open location code
9C3R53PV+V2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1744251604
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2640598
Wiki­data ID
Q2198224
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Parracombe” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Parracombe”
  • Chinese: “Parracombe”
  • Dutch: “Parracombe”
  • French: “Parracombe”
  • Irish: “Parracombe”
  • Ladin: “Parracombe”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Parracombe”
  • Polish: “Parracombe”
  • Swedish: “Parracombe”
  • Welsh: “Parracombe”
  • “Parracombe”

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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 “Parracombe”. Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.