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Paignton

Paignton is a seaside town in the area of the region of . The town, which has a history as a fishing village but is also on the railway line, is home to the well-known Paignton Zoo.
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  • Type: Town with 49,900 residents
  • Description: town in Devon, England
  • Also known as: “Paignton, Devon”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Paignton railway station and Palace Theatre.

Railway station
Photo: Ianmacm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
serves the town and seaside resort of Paignton in , England. It is 222 miles 12 chains from , via Box. It opened in 1859 and is now the terminus of Riviera Line services from and heritage services on the Dartmouth Steam Railway from Kingswear.

Theater building
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The is a theatre in Paignton, , England. It was built in 1890 and is the oldest working theatre in . It has been owned by Torbay Council or its predecessor organisations since 1920.

Photo: Tom Jolliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a large house and gardens in Paignton, , England. It was built as a private residence for Isaac Singer, and rebuilt by his son Paris Singer, in the style of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Torquay and Cockington.

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is a town on the coast of the region of . Since the 19th century, it has been a fashionable seaside resort in the English Riviera.

Suburb
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is a village near , in the district, in the ceremonial county of , England. with Chelston had a population of 8,366 in 2021.

Suburb
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is an area of Paignton in , England. It is situated in and lies between Paignton town centre and , less than 1 mile south of central Paignton. Its beach is known as Sands.

Paignton

Latitude
50.4377° or 50° 26′ 16″ north
Longitude
-3.5633° or 3° 33′ 48″ west
Population
49,900
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
United Nations Location Codes
GB TBY and GB PGN
Open location code
9C2RCCQP+3M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27199090
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2640681
Wiki­data ID
Q776662
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Paignton” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Փեյնթոն”
  • Armenian: “Փեյնտոն”
  • Asturian: “Paignton”
  • Azerbaijani: “Peynton”
  • Basque: “Paignton”
  • Belarusian: “Пейнтан”
  • Bulgarian: “Пейнтън”
  • Catalan: “Paignton”
  • Cebuano: “Paignton”
  • Chinese: “佩恩頓”
  • Czech: “Paignton”
  • Dutch: “Paignton”
  • Esperanto: “Paignton”
  • French: “Paignton”
  • German: “Paignton”
  • Hebrew: “פיינטון”
  • Irish: “Paignton”
  • Italian: “Paignton”
  • Japanese: “ペイントン”
  • Korean: “페인턴”
  • Ladin: “Paignton”
  • Latin: “Peintona”
  • Latvian: “Peintona”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paignton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paignton”
  • Persian: “پینتون”
  • Polish: “Paignton”
  • Portuguese: “Paignton”
  • Romanian: “Paignton”
  • Russian: “Пейнтон”
  • Russian: “Пэйнтон”
  • Serbian: “Пејнтон”
  • Slovenian: “Paignton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پینتون”
  • Spanish: “Paignton”
  • Swedish: “Paignton”
  • Tatar: “Пейнтон”
  • Ukrainian: “Пейнтон”
  • Volapük: “Paignton”
  • Welsh: “Paignton”

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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 “Paignton”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.