Lympstone
Lympstone is a former fishing village in East Devon, between Exeter and Exmouth. It has become a home mainly for commuters and tourists.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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 Lympstone Village railway station and A la Ronde.
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.
A la Ronde
A la Ronde is an 18th-century, 16-sided cottage orné near Lympstone, Exmouth, Devon, England, in the ownership of the National Trust. The house was built for two spinster cousins, Jane and Mary Parminter.
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.
Exton
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Exton is a village in East Devon, Devon, England; it is situated on the east bank of the River Clyst, as it flows through the wider Exe Estuary. The town of Topsham lies 1 mile to the north-west.
Lympstone
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: East Devon District, 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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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 “Lympstone”. Photo: Ray Girvan, CC BY-SA 2.0.