Bideford
Bideford is a town in North Devon on the River Torridge. For visitors, the main features of Bideford are its quaint back streets full of shops, its pannier market, and many festivals & events throughout the year such as the Bideford Bike Show, Soapbox Derby, Rowing Regatta, Water Festival & Rainbo Fun Run.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 28,700 residents
- Description: town in Devon, England, UK
- Also known as: “Bideford, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Burton at Bideford and Bideford Town Hall.
Burton at Bideford
Museum
The Burton at Bideford is an art gallery and museum on Kingsley Road in Victoria Park, in Bideford, Devon, England. It houses collections on various topics connected with Bideford’s history and cultural heritage.
Bideford Town Hall
Library
Photo: Fitzbaddley, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bideford Town Hall is a municipal building at the corner of Bridge Street and New Road in Bideford, Devon, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Bideford Town Council and is also used for some meetings of Torridge District Council, is a Grade II listed building.
Pannier Market
Marketplace
Photo: Jack1956, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Pannier Market in Bideford in North Devon is a large covered Victorian pannier market together with the Butcher's Row of small artisan stalls running along the lower level of the Market.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westward Ho! and Appledore.
Westward Ho!
Westward Ho! is a quaintly-named seaside town in Torridge, Devon, England, near Bideford! Beware however, that's where the quaintness ends. Westward Ho! is in some need of investment, although it retains a good variety of quality local businesses, and its beach is highly regarded and noted for the cleanliness of its water.
Appledore
Village
Photo: Sannse, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Appledore is a village at the mouth of the River Torridge, about 6 miles west of Barnstaple and about 3 miles north of Bideford in the county Devon, England. Appledore is situated 2½ miles north of Bideford.
Bideford
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Torridge District, North Devon, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.0181° or 51° 1′ 5″ northLongitude
-4.2064° or 4° 12′ 23″ westPopulation
28,700Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BIDOpen location code
9C3Q2Q9V+7COpenStreetMap ID
node 33795401OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Bideford” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Bideford”
- Basque: “Bideford”
- Belarusian: “Бідэфорд”
- Bengali: “বিডফোর্ড”
- Bulgarian: “Байдфорд”
- Bulgarian: “Бидефорд”
- Catalan: “Bideford”
- Cebuano: “Bideford”
- Chinese: “Bideford”
- Chinese: “拜德福特”
- Chinese: “比迪福德”
- Dutch: “Bideford”
- Esperanto: “Bideford”
- French: “Bideford”
- Galician: “Bideford”
- German: “Bideford”
- Gujarati: “બાઈડફોર્ડ”
- Hungarian: “Bideford”
- Irish: “Bideford”
- Italian: “Bideford”
- Japanese: “ビディフォード”
- Japanese: “ビデフォード”
- Kannada: “ಬೈಡ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
- Korean: “바이드퍼드”
- Korean: “비데포드”
- Latin: “Bediforda”
- Latin: “Bideford”
- Latvian: “Bideforda”
- Lithuanian: “Bajdfordas”
- Lithuanian: “Bideford”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bideford”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bideford”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bideford”
- Norwegian: “Bideford”
- Persian: “بیدفورد”
- Polish: “Bideford”
- Portuguese: “Bideford”
- Romanian: “Bideford”
- Russian: “Бидефорд”
- Silesian: “Bideford”
- Slovenian: “Bideford, Devon, Anglija”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیدفورد”
- Spanish: “Bideford”
- Swedish: “Bideford”
- Tajik: “Бидефурд”
- Tamil: “பிடெபோர்ட”
- Telugu: “బిడే ఫోర్డ్”
- Thai: “บิดิเฟิร์ด”
- Turkish: “Bideford”
- Ukrainian: “Бідефорд”
- Urdu: “بیدیفورڈ”
- Volapük: “Bideford”
- Welsh: “Bideford”
- “Bideford”
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