Woodbury Common

Woodbury Common is a military installation in Colaton Raleigh, East Devon, England. Woodbury Common is situated nearby to the military installation Grenade Range, as well as near the heath Colaton Raleigh Common.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Woodbury Castle and Bicton Arena.

Woodbury Castle

Archaeological site

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Woodbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort near the village of Woodbury in the English county of Devon, some eight miles southeast of the city of Exeter. The fort is situated on a high point of Woodbury Common, at approximately 185 metres above sea level, in a commanding position with views up and down the Exe Estuary and across Lyme Bay in both directions. Woodbury Castle is situated 1 mile west of Woodbury Common.

Bicton Arena

Stadium

Bicton Arena is a multi-discipline equestrian venue in Devon, England. It is notable for hosting the Bicton Arena International 5*, the only CCI 5* event to run in the UK 2021, replacing the traditional Burghley Horse Trials normally held on the same weekend at Burghley House in Lincolnshire. Bicton Arena is situated 1½ miles southeast of Woodbury Common.

Otterton Mill

Otterton Water Mill is at the village of Otterton, near Budleigh Salterton in Devon, England. Otterton Water Mill is set beside the River Otter in Devon. Otterton Mill is situated 2½ miles southeast of Woodbury Common.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Woodbury Salterton and Woodbury.

Woodbury Salterton

Village

Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Woodbury Salterton is a village 6 miles from Exeter, in the civil parish of Woodbury, in the East Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 647. Woodbury Salterton is situated 2½ miles west of Woodbury Common.

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.

Otterton

Village

Photo: Ning-ning, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Otterton is a village and civil parish in East Devon, England. The parish lies on the English Channel and is surrounded clockwise from the south by the parishes of East Budleigh, Bicton, Colaton Raleigh, Newton Poppleford and Harpford and Sidmouth. Otterton is situated 2½ miles southeast of Woodbury Common.

Woodbury Common

Type: Military installation
Location: Colaton Raleigh, East Devon, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.68087° or 50° 40′ 51″ north

Longitude

-3.34802° or 3° 20′ 53″ west

Open location code

9C2RMMJ2+8Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 69354181

OpenStreetMap feature

military=danger_area

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