Challacombe
Challacombe is a small village on the edge of the Exmoor National Park, in Devon, England. The village has a small general shop/Post Office and a single pub, the Black Venus. The village is on the B3358 road and is 5 miles west of Simonsbath.Places of Interest
Highlights include Exmoor Zoo and Shoulsbury castle.
Exmoor Zoo
Zoo
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Exmoor Zoo is a conservation centre near Bratton Fleming in Exmoor, a national park in North Devon, England. The zoo developed from Exmoor Bird Gardens, opened on the site of a farm in 1982.
Shoulsbury castle
Archaeological site
Shoulsbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort close to Challacombe in Devon, England. It takes the form of a multi-ditch and rampart enclosure close to the top of a hill on the shoulder of Shoulsbarrow Common at an elevation of 472 metres above sea level.
Wistlandpound Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Barrie Cann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wistlandpound Reservoir is a reservoir in Devon, England owned by South West Water. Although final completion was in 1957, the reservoir started supplying the Barnstaple area in September 1956. Wistlandpound Reservoir is situated 2½ miles west of Challacombe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lynton and Lynmouth and Benton.
Lynton and Lynmouth
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lynton and Lynmouth is a civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England. The parish is named after its two main settlements of Lynton, which stands on a plateau above the Glen Lyn Gorge, and Lynmouth which lies at the foot of the gorge where the West Lyn River and East Lyn River converge and then meet the sea.
Benton
Hamlet
Benton is a village in Devon, England, within the civil parish of Bratton Fleming. Benton is situated 3½ miles southwest of Challacombe.
Challacombe
- Type: Locality
- Location: North Devon, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.154° or 51° 9′ 14″ northLongitude
-3.8844° or 3° 53′ 4″ westElevation
958 feet (292 metres)Open location code
9C3R5438+H6GeoNames ID
7298219
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