Wind Hill
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Trotboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Blue Ball Inn and Lynmouth Lifeboat Station.
Lynmouth Lifeboat Station
Museum
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lynmouth Lifeboat Station was the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution search and rescue operations at Lynmouth, Devon in England from 1869 until 1944.
Lynmouth Bay railway station
Railway station
Lynmouth Bay railway station is a station in Lynmouth, Devon, England, served by the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, a water-powered funicular railway. The station has two platforms, a ticket booth, and a bench, but no office. It opened in 1890.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Countisbury and Lynmouth.
Countisbury
Hamlet
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
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.
Wind Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 856 feet
- Description: hill in Devon, England, UK
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Lynton and Lynmouth, North Devon District, North Devon, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.22892° or 51° 13′ 44″ northLongitude
-3.80645° or 3° 48′ 23″ westElevation
856 feet (261 metres)Open location code
9C3R65HV+HCOpenStreetMap ID
node 668104311OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Wind Hill” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Wind Hill”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ويند هيل”
- Welsh: “Wind Hill”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Myrtlebury North Iron Age Enclosure and Watersmeet.
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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 “Wind Hill”. Photo: Trotboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.