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Brendon

Brendon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brendon and Countisbury, in the district, in the county of , England.
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Photo: Peter French, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Village with 225 residents
  • Description: village in Devon, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Brendon, Devon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wind Hill and Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse.

Peak
Photo: Trotboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, situated close to in , 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.

Lighthouse
Photo: Christopher Ware, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 , and is a round brick tower painted white.

Church
Photo: Marion Dutcher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Anglican in , , England, was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. is situated 2 miles east of Brendon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lynton and Lynmouth and Lynton.

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.

Town
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is a town on the coast in the district in the county of , England, approximately 17 miles north-east of and 18 miles west of , and close to the confluence of the West Lyn and East Lyn rivers. is situated 3 miles west of Brendon.

Hamlet
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brendon and , in the district, in the county of , England.

Brendon

Latitude
51.2201° or 51° 13′ 12″ north
Longitude
-3.7643° or 3° 45′ 51″ west
Population
225
Elevation
1,263 feet (385 metres)
Open location code
9C3R66CP+27
Open­Street­Map ID
node 291124309
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7296504
Wiki­data ID
Q1217620
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Brendon” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Брендон”
  • Cebuano: “Brendon”
  • Chinese: “Brendon”
  • Dutch: “Brendon”
  • French: “Brendon”
  • Irish: “Brendon”
  • Italian: “Brendon (Inghilterra)”
  • Italian: “Brendon”
  • Japanese: “ブレンドン”
  • Ladin: “Brendon”
  • Latin: “Brendon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Brendon”
  • Persian: “برندون”
  • Polish: “Brendon”
  • Russian: “Брендон”
  • Swedish: “Brendon”
  • Welsh: “Brendon”
  • “Brendon”

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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 “Brendon”. Photo: Peter French, CC BY-SA 2.0.