Lympstone
Lympstone is a former fishing village in East Devon, between Exeter and Exmouth. It has become a home mainly for commuters and tourists.Photo: Ray Girvan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,760 residents
- Description: village in East Devon, England
- Also known as: “Lympston” and “Lympstone, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Powderham Castle and Lympstone Village railway station.
Powderham Castle
Castle
Photo: raymond cocks, CC BY 2.0.
Powderham Castle is a fortified manor house in Exminster, Devon, 6 miles south of Exeter and 1⁄4 mile north-east of the village of Kenton, where the main public entrance gates are located.
Lympstone Village railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lympstone Village railway station serves the village of Lympstone in Devon, England. It is on the Avocet Line which runs between Exeter St Davids and Exmouth.
Lympstone Commando railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
Lympstone Commando railway station serves the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines on the Avocet Line, a branch line between Exeter and Exmouth in Devon, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodbury and Exmouth.
Woodbury
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Exmouth
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Topsham
Photo: Matty Ring, CC BY 2.0.
Topsham is a town of 3,700 people in Devon in England's West Country. Formerly a major seaport, the town is now of interest for its architecture, scenery and proximity to nature reserves for wading and migrating birds, such as RSPB Bowling Green Marsh on the Exe Estuary, the whole of which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Lympstone
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: East Devon, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.6489° or 50° 38′ 56″ northLongitude
-3.4257° or 3° 25′ 33″ westPopulation
1,760Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
9C2RJHXF+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 115964171OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2643306Wikidata ID
Q2986492
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Lympstone” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lympstone”
- Bulgarian: “Лймпстоне”
- Cebuano: “Lympstone”
- Chinese: “Lympstone”
- Dutch: “Lympstone”
- French: “Lympstone”
- Irish: “Lympstone”
- Italian: “Lympstone”
- Ladin: “Lympstone”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lympstone”
- Persian: “لیمپستون”
- Polish: “Lympstone”
- Spanish: “Lympstone”
- Swedish: “Lympstone”
- Welsh: “Lympstone”
- “Lympstone”
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