East Devon
East Devon is the name given by Wikivoyage to that part of Devon that lies to the east of the River Exe. The region is bounded to the south by Lyme Bay, part of the English Channel, to the east by Dorset, to the north-east by Somerset and to the west by Exeter and North Devon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Exmouth and Sidmouth.
Exmouth
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Exmouth is a seaside town in East Devon. Exmouth is Devon's oldest seaside resort and has a two mile long golden, sandy beach fronting the channel which attracts visitors and locals all year round.
Sidmouth
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Sidmouth is a seaside resort town in East Devon. Host to an international folk festival for one week every year, for the other 51 weeks, Sidmouth is a very pleasant but small beach-side town.
Tiverton
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Tiverton is a town and civil parish in Devon, England, and the commercial and administrative centre of the Mid Devon district. The population in 2019 was 20,587.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Honiton and Axminster.
Honiton
Axminster
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Axminster is a market town and civil parish on the eastern border of the county of Devon in England. It is 28 miles from the county town of Exeter. The town is built on a hill overlooking the River Axe which heads towards the English Channel at Axmouth, and is in the East Devon local government district.
Budleigh Salterton
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Budleigh Salterton is a seaside town on the coast in East Devon, England, 15 miles south-east of Exeter. It lies within the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and forms much of the electoral ward of Budleigh, whose ward population at the 2021 census was 7,671.
Seaton
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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.
Beer
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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.
Woodbury
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Woodbury is a village in East Devon, in the West Country of England. Considered a commuter village in modern times, the area has a long history: an Iron Age fort, Woodbury Castle, is in the nearby Woodbury Common, and a Roman fort and later Romano-British settlement existed at Woodbury Farm, on the outskirts of the village today.
Lympstone
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Lympstone is a former fishing village in East Devon, between Exeter and Exmouth. It has become a home mainly for commuters and tourists.
Branscombe
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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.
East Devon
- Type: non-metropolitan district with 155,000 residents
- Description: non-metropolitan district in Devon, England, UK
- Also known as: “East Devon District”
- Location: Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
Population
155,000Wikidata ID
Q1277825
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“East Devon” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Իսթ Դևոն”
- Bavarian: “East Devon”
- Belarusian: “Іст-Дэван”
- Belarusian: “Усходні Дэван”
- Breton: “Reter Devon”
- Bulgarian: “Източен Девън (община)”
- Bulgarian: “Източен Девън”
- Catalan: “East Devon”
- Cebuano: “East Devon District”
- Chinese: “East Devon”
- Chinese: “東德文區”
- Dutch: “East Devon”
- French: “East Devon”
- German: “East Devon”
- Irish: “Devon Thoir”
- Italian: “East Devon”
- Japanese: “イースト・デヴォン”
- Korean: “이스트데번”
- Latvian: “Austrumdevona”
- Min Nan Chinese: “East Devon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “East Devon”
- Norwegian: “East Devon”
- Polish: “East Devon”
- Romanian: “East devon”
- Romanian: “East Devon”
- Russian: “Ист-Девон”
- Slovenian: “East Devon”
- Spanish: “East Devon”
- Swedish: “East Devon District”
- Swedish: “East Devon”
- Tumbuka: “East Devon”
- Ukrainian: “Іст-Девон”
- Urdu: “مشرقی ڈیون”
- Welsh: “Ardal Dwyrain Dyfnaint”
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