Country: | England |
Map Type: | Cornwall |
Coordinates: | 50.3648°N -4.3851°W |
Official Name: | Seaton |
Cornish Name: | Sethyn |
Civil Parish: | Deviock |
Shire County: | Cornwall |
Region: | South West England |
Constituency Westminster: | South East Cornwall |
Post Town: | TORPOINT |
Postcode District: | PL11 |
Postcode Area: | PL |
Dial Code: | 01503 |
Os Grid Reference: | SX304544 |
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. 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]