Lydford
Lydford is a village in Dartmoor, the English county of Devon. The village sits within Dartmoor National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 370 residents
- Description: village in Devon, England, UK
- Also known as: “Lidford” and “Lydford, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lydford Castle and Fox & Hounds Hotel.
Lydford Castle
Photo: Steinsky, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Lydford Castle is a medieval castle in the town of Lydford, Devon, England. The first castle in Lydford, sometimes termed the Norman fort, was a small ringwork built in a corner of the Anglo-Saxon fortified burh in the years after the Norman conquest of England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bridestowe.
Bridestowe
Village
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bridestowe is a civil parish and village in the district of West Devon, Devon, England. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Bratton Clovelly, Sourton, Bridestowe and Sourton Common, Lydford, Lewtrenchard and Thrushelton. Bridestowe is situated 2½ miles north of Lydford.
Lydford
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: West Devon District, Dartmoor, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.6455° or 50° 38′ 44″ northLongitude
-4.1061° or 4° 6′ 22″ westPopulation
370Elevation
738 feet (225 metres)Open location code
9C2QJVWV+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 264969110OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2643325Wikidata ID
Q1026666
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Lydford” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Лйдфорд”
- Cebuano: “Lydford”
- Chinese: “Lydford”
- Dutch: “Lydford”
- French: “Lydford”
- German: “Lydford”
- Irish: “Lydford”
- Italian: “Lydford”
- Ladin: “Lydford”
- Latin: “Lydford”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lydford”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hlydanford”
- Persian: “لیدفورد”
- Polish: “Lydford”
- Swedish: “Lydford”
- Turkish: “Lydford”
- Welsh: “Lydford”
- “Lydford”
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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 “Lydford”. Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.