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Woody Bay

Woody Bay is a bay on the North coast of England, 3 miles west of and 8 miles east of with a stony beach. It lies in the civil parish of at the edge of the Exmoor National Park and is a waypoint on the South West Coast Path.
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Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay on the North Devon coast of England
  • Also known as: “Woody Bay, Devon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Martin and Lee Abbey.

Church
Photo: John Phillips, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, founded in 1946, is an ecumenical Christian community between Woody Bay and in , England. It is a Grade II listed building. The first building on the site may have been a farmhouse built by Cistercian abbots of around 1200.

Railway station
Photo: Lynbarn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Woody Bay, within the National Park, is a station on the former Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a narrow gauge line that ran through from to and in North .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Valley of the Rocks and Barbrook.

Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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 .

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.

Town
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Woody Bay

Latitude
51.22732° or 51° 13′ 38″ north
Longitude
-3.8938° or 3° 53′ 38″ west
Open location code
9C3R64G4+WF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2252447008
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
11103115
Wiki­data ID
Q8033631
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In Other Languages

“Woody Bay” goes by many names.
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Woody Bay”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Woody Bay Tidal Pool. and Roman Fortlet.

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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 “Woody Bay”. Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.