Seaton
Seaton is located in Cornwall
Seaton
Seaton
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSX304544
Civil parish
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTORPOINT
Postcode districtPL11
Dialling code01503
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
Sketchmap of the River Seaton and neighbouring rivers in Cornwall

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]

References

  1. 1 2 Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
  2. ↑ Cornwall Council online mapping Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved June 2010
  3. ↑ "Bruce Hunt: Proposed line to Looe". Retrieved 10 July 2021.

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