Beer
Beer is a seaside village in East Devon in the West Country of England. The village rings a small cove with a big beach, with no harbour to speak of. Boats are pulled up onto the beach. In years gone by it was popular with smugglers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gaius Cornelius, Public domain.
Photo: Mark A Coleman, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,280 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Devon, UK
- Also known as: “Beer, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beer Quarry Caves and Axe Valley Heritage Museum.
Beer Quarry Caves
Photo: Sarah Charlesworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beer Quarry Caves is a man-made limestone underground complex located about a mile west of the village of Beer, Devon, and the main source in England for Beer stone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seaton and Branscombe.
Seaton
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Seaton is a seaside town, fishing harbour and civil parish in East Devon on the south coast of England, between Axmouth and Beer. It faces onto Lyme Bay and is on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site.
Branscombe
Photo: grumpylumixuser, CC BY 3.0.
The village of Branscombe is found on the coast of East Devon between Seaton and Sidmouth and is one of the most relaxing and picturesque villages on Jurassic Coastline.
Axmouth
Village
Photo: Pam Goodey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Axmouth is a village, civil parish and former manor in the East Devon district of Devon, England, near the mouth of the River Axe. The village itself is about 1 mile inland, on the east bank of the Axe estuary. Axmouth is situated 2 miles northeast of Beer.
Beer
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: East Devon District, East Devon, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.6999° or 50° 41′ 60″ northLongitude
-3.0951° or 3° 5′ 42″ westPopulation
1,280Elevation
161 feet (49 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BXXOpen location code
9C2RMWX3+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 246704012OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Beer” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Beer (Devon)”
- Basque: “Beer”
- Catalan: “Beer”
- Cebuano: “Beer”
- Chinese: “Beer”
- Chinese: “比尔”
- Chinese: “比爾”
- Chinese: “皮爾”
- Dutch: “Beer”
- French: “Beer”
- German: “Beer”
- Irish: “Beer”
- Italian: “Beer”
- Ladin: “Beer”
- Latin: “Beer”
- Latin: “Bera”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Beer (Devon)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beer”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beer i Devon”
- Norwegian: “Beer”
- Persian: “بیر، دون”
- Polish: “Beer”
- Russian: “Бир”
- Spanish: “Beer (Devon)”
- Spanish: “Beer”
- Swedish: “Beer, Devon”
- Swedish: “Beer”
- Welsh: “Beer, Dyfnaint”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Beer”. Photo: Mark A Coleman, CC BY 3.0.