Dunkeswell
Dunkeswell is a village and civil parish in East Devon, England, located about 5 miles north of the town of Honiton. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,553, reducing to 1,361 at the 2011 Census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,360 residents
- Description: village in Devon, England, UK
- Also known as: “Dunkeswell, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Nicholas and Dunkeswell Aerodrome.
Dunkeswell Aerodrome
Aerodrome
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Dunkeswell Aerodrome is an airfield in East Devon, England. It is located approximately 5 mi north of the town of Honiton and 14 nautical miles northeast of Exeter.
Wolford Chapel
Church
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Wolford Chapel in Devon, England, is the burial place of John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. The building and land are publicly owned by the Canadian province of Ontario, and flies the Flag of Canada despite being in the English countryside. Wolford Chapel is situated 1½ miles south of Dunkeswell.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abbey and Blackborough.
Abbey
Hamlet
Photo: John Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abbey is a hamlet in the civil parish of Dunkeswell, in the East Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. It is located in the Blackdown Hills, a group of hills that border both Devon and Somerset. Dunkeswell Abbey is situated in the hamlet. Abbey is situated 1½ miles north of Dunkeswell.
Blackborough
Village
Photo: Maigheach-gheal, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blackborough is a hamlet and former manor in the parish of Kentisbeare, Devon, England. It is situated within the Mid Devon district. The nearest substantial town is Cullompton, approximately 4.7 miles to the south-west. Blackborough is situated 3 miles west of Dunkeswell.
Beacon
Village
Beacon is a hamlet near Honiton in the English county of Devon, below the most southerly point of Hartridge Hill in Luppitt parish. Beacon is situated 3 miles southeast of Dunkeswell.
Dunkeswell
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Dunkeswell, East Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.86381° or 50° 51′ 50″ northLongitude
-3.22228° or 3° 13′ 20″ westPopulation
1,360Elevation
781 feet (238 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DKWOpen location code
9C2RVQ7H+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 1756251504OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Dunkeswell” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dunkeswell”
- Cebuano: “Dunkeswell”
- Chinese: “Dunkeswell”
- Dutch: “Dunkeswell”
- French: “Dunkeswell”
- German: “Dunkeswell”
- Irish: “Dunkeswell”
- Italian: “Dunkeswell”
- Ladin: “Dunkeswell”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dunkeswell”
- Persian: “دانکزول”
- Polish: “Dunkeswell”
- Spanish: “Dunkeswell”
- Swedish: “Dunkeswell”
- Welsh: “Dunkeswell”
- “Dunkeswell”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dunkeswell Methodist Church and Dunkeswell Village Hall.
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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 “Dunkeswell”. Photo: Eugene Birchall, CC BY-SA 2.0.