Countisbury
Countisbury is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brendon and Countisbury, in the North Devon district, in the county of Devon, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Blue Ball Inn and Wind Hill.
Wind Hill
Peak
Photo: Trotboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wind Hill, situated close to Lynmouth in Devon, England, is the location of an Iron Age enclosure or "spur" hill fort. The site is effectively a hillside forming a spur or promontory between the steep valley of the East Lyn River to the south and the cliffs to the north.
Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Christopher Ware, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse is located on Foreland Point; it was originally simply named 'The Foreland Lighthouse'. First lit on 28 September 1900, the lighthouse was built to assist vessels passing through the Bristol Channel, and is a round brick tower painted white.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lynmouth and Brendon.
Lynmouth
Village
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lynmouth is a village in Devon, England, on the northern edge of Exmoor. The village straddles the confluence of the West Lyn and East Lyn rivers, in a gorge 700 feet directly below the neighbouring town of Lynton, which was the only place to expand to once Lynmouth became as built-up as possible.
Brendon
Village
Photo: Peter French, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brendon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brendon and Countisbury, in the North Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. Brendon is situated 1½ miles southeast of Countisbury.
West Lyn
Hamlet
West Lyn is a hamlet in the civil parish of Lynton and Lynmouth in the North Devon district of Devon, England. Its nearest town is Lynton, which lies approximately 1 mile north from the hamlet. The hamlet is within the Exmoor National Park. West Lyn is situated 1½ miles southwest of Countisbury.
Countisbury
- Type: Hamlet with 206 residents
- Description: hamlet and former civil parish in North Devon, Devon, England
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Countisbury, North Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.23198° or 51° 13′ 55″ northLongitude
-3.79578° or 3° 47′ 45″ westPopulation
206Elevation
814 feet (248 metres)Open location code
9C3R66J3+QMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1769004158OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2652237Wikidata ID
Q1994485
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Countisbury” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Countisbury”
- Cebuano: “Countisbury”
- Chinese: “Countisbury”
- Dutch: “Countisbury”
- French: “Countisbury”
- Irish: “Countisbury”
- Ladin: “Countisbury”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Countisbury”
- Polish: “Countisbury”
- Swedish: “Countisbury”
- “Countisbury”
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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 “Countisbury”. Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.