Lympstone
Lympstone is a village and civil parish in East Devon, in the English county of Devon.
Lympstone is a village and civil parish in East Devon, in the English county of Devon. It lies on the eastern bank of the River Exe estuary, approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) north-west of Exmouth and 11 mi (18 km) south-east of Exeter. The parish had a population of 2,117 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Lympstone
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Powderham Castle
Powderham Castle is a fortified manor house in the civil parish of Powderham, Devon, 6 miles south of Exeter and 1⁄4 mile north-east of the village of Kenton, where the main public entrance gates are located. It is a Grade I listed building.
2.2 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Teignbridge, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Exeter Ship Canal
The Exeter Ship Canal, also known as the Exeter Canal, is a canal leading from the River Exe to Exeter Quay in the city of Exeter, Devon, England. It was first constructed in the 1560s, predating the "canal mania" period, and is one of the oldest artificial waterways in the UK. As built, it contained the first pound locks to be built in Britain.
3.4 km · canal in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03A 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.
1.6 km · Heritage Museum in South West England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Holy Trinity Church, Exmouth
Holy Trinity Church, Exmouth is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Exmouth.
3.5 km · church in Exmouth, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Parish Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the parish church of Lympstone in Devon, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
500 m · church in Lympstone, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Exmouth Town Hall
Exmouth Town Hall is a municipal building in St Andrews Road in Exmouth, a town in Devon, England. The building currently serves as the meeting place of Exmouth Town Council and also accommodates some staff from East Devon District Council.
3.2 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Peter's Tower
An Italianate riverfront brick clock tower built around 1885.
- 02A la Ronde
Summer Lane, EX8 5BD, alaronde@nationaltrust.org.uk.
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Things to do
Walking on Woodbury Common.
- 01Woodbury Park
Woodbury Castle, Warkidons Way, Woodbury, EX5 1JJ, events@woodburypark.co.uk.
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Where to eat
- 01The Globe Inn
A good way to spend a Sunday afternoon if you want a decently priced carvery.
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Getting to Lympstone
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 84 km · Bristol (BRS), 96 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 227 km
- Stations
- Starcross railway station, 2.4 km · Lympstone Commando railway station, 2 km · Lympstone Village railway station, 300 m · Exmouth railway station, 2.9 km · Exton railway station, 2.6 km
- Cardiff → Lympstone94 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £16–22
- Bristol → Lympstone107 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–15
- London → Lympstone250 km · quickest by road, 4h 36m · £25–34
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lympstone
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lympstone. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextLand's End is not that far from Dawlish, and visiting it could be a day trip.
From Wikivoyage: Dawlish, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Lympstone – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.