Chelfham
Chelfham is a small borough in North Devon, England. It is situated between Bratton Fleming and Barnstaple. The village had a closed special needs school, and also a disused railway viaduct and station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roger Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Devon, England, UK
- Also known as: “Chelfham, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chelfham Viaduct and Church of St Gregory.
Chelfham Viaduct
Bridge
Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chelfham Viaduct is a railway viaduct built in 1896–97 to carry the single track, narrow-gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway across the Stoke Rivers valley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Benton and Churchill.
Benton
Hamlet
Benton is a village in Devon, England, within the civil parish of Bratton Fleming. Benton is situated 3 miles east of Chelfham.
Churchill
Hamlet
Photo: Bashereyre, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Churchill is a hamlet in the civil parish of East Down, in the North Devon district, in Devon, England, and is located near the village of East Down, as well as the town of Barnstaple. Churchill is situated 3½ miles north of Chelfham.
Barnstaple
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
Barnstaple is a river-port town and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England. The town lies at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel.
Chelfham
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Bratton Fleming, North Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.10421° or 51° 6′ 15″ northLongitude
-3.98523° or 3° 59′ 7″ westElevation
184 feet (56 metres)Open location code
9C3R4237+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1572710797OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Chelfham” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Chelfham”
- French: “Chelfham”
- Irish: “Chelfham”
- Polish: “Chelfham”
- Welsh: “Chelfham”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Chelfham Station Building and Northleigh Plantation.
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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 “Chelfham”. Photo: Roger Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.