Seaton, Cornwall Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston
  2. http://mapping.cornwall.gov.uk/website/ccmap/ Cornwall Council online mapping
  3. Web site: Bruce Hunt: Proposed line to Looe. 10 July 2021.