Seaton, Cornwall
Seaton
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Location within Cornwall | |
OS grid reference | SX304544 |
Civil parish | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | TORPOINT |
Postcode district | PL11 |
Dialling code | 01503 |
Police | Devon and Cornwall |
Fire | Cornwall |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
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Seaton (Cornish: Sethyn, meaning little arrow after the river) is a village on the south coast of Cornwall, England, at the mouth of the River Seaton 3.8 miles (6.1 km) east of Looe and ten miles (16 km) west of Plymouth.[1] The village is in the civil parish of Deviock.[2]
The village stretches inland along the River Seaton valley.[1] It has two pubs, a beach café. Seaton beach is mostly shingle and stretches from the river to the village of Downderry a mile to the east.
Seaton Valley Countryside Park, one of four Country Parks in Cornwall, is immediately to the north of the village. The park includes a nature trail that can be followed for nearly two miles north to Hessenford.
A Monkey Sanctuary with a colony of woolly monkeys and other rescued primates is two miles to the west.
A station was to be built at Seaton as part of the proposed St Germans & Looe Railway in the late 1930s, but the railway was abandoned without the station having been built.[3]
Gallery
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Seaton beach
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The Seaton valley
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The River Seaton meets the sea
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A minor road west of Seaton
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
- ^ Cornwall Council online mapping Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved June 2010
- ^ "Bruce Hunt: Proposed line to Looe". Retrieved 10 July 2021.
External links
[edit] Media related to Seaton, Cornwall at Wikimedia Commons