Lympstone

Lympstone is a former fishing village in , between and . It has become a home mainly for commuters and tourists.
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  • 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.

Castle
Photo: raymond cocks, CC BY 2.0.
is a fortified manor house in the civil parish of Powderham, Devon, 6 miles south of and 1⁄4 mile north-east of the village of , where the main public entrance gates are located.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the village of Lympstone in , England. It is on the Avocet Line which runs between and .

Railway station
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serves the on the Avocet Line between and , in , England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Woodbury and Exmouth.

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in , in the West Country of . Considered a commuter village in modern times, the area has a long history: an Iron Age fort, Castle, is in the nearby Common, and a Roman fort and later Romano-British settlement existed at Farm, on the outskirts of the village today.

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is a seaside town in . 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.

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is a town of 3,700 people in in 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

Latitude
50.6489° or 50° 38′ 56″ north
Longitude
-3.4257° or 3° 25′ 33″ west
Population
1,760
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Open location code
9C2RJHXF+HP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 115964171
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2643306
Wiki­data ID
Q2986492
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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”
  • Urdu: “لمپسٹون”
  • Welsh: “Lympstone”
  • “Lympstone”

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