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Lympstone
Village in Devon, England

Lympstone

Lympstone is a village and civil parish in East Devon, in the English county of Devon.

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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.

Get in

Getting to Lympstone

A376 from Exeter to Exmouth passes through the village at the top end away from the Estuary.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Peter's Tower

    An Italianate riverfront brick clock tower built around 1885.

  2. 02
    A la Ronde

    Summer Lane, EX8 5BD, alaronde@nationaltrust.org.uk.

Do

Things to do

Walking on Woodbury Common.

  1. 01
    Woodbury Park

    Woodbury Castle, Warkidons Way, Woodbury, EX5 1JJ, events@woodburypark.co.uk.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The Globe Inn

    A good way to spend a Sunday afternoon if you want a decently priced carvery.

How locals move

Getting around Lympstone the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Alex Liivet from Chester, United Kingdom (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.