Edoor is a small town about 6.5 kilometers from

Iritty Iritty is a Municipality and a Taluk of Kannur district in Kerala State, India. The town is the main market place for the farmer communities in the surrounding regions. Iritty is known as The Coorg Valley in God's Own Country. Iritty is one o ...

in Kannur district in

Kerala, India Kerala ( ; ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

. Edoor is named by the people from travancore. Before their migration these lands were forest

Economy

Edoor town is a small marketplace for the farmer communities of the surrounding regions.

Transportation

The national highway passes through

Kannur Kannur (), formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a city and a municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kannur district and situated north of the major port city and commercial hu ...

town.

Mangalore Mangalore (), officially known as Mangaluru, is a major port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bangalore, the state capital, 20 km north of Karnataka–Ker ...

and

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can be accessed on the northern side and

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and

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

can be accessed on the southern side. The road to the east of

connects to

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and

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. The nearest railway station is

on Mangalore-

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line. There are airports at

and

Calicut Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second la ...

. This place is well-connected to any part of Kannur and other parts of Kerala by road.

Tourism

Tourist attractions include Vembuzha river, St Mary's Forane Church,

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(Pentecostal Church) in Veerpad, Mundayamparambu Temple and the

Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary is the northernmost wildlife sanctuary of Kerala, southwest India. It is in area and located on the western slope of the Western Ghats. It was established in 1984. The headquarters of the sanctuary is near Iritty ...

. Kolikadavu,

Angadikadavu Angadikadavu is a town in Kannur district, Kerala, India. It is near to Karnataka border. Education Sacred Heart Schools, Angadikadavu is located in the town. Transportation The national highway passes through Kannur town. Mangalore and Mu ...

and

Aralam Aralam is a village and Grama Panchayat in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala. Demographics As of 2011 Census, Aralam had a population of 29,328 people which constitutes 14,438 males and 14,890 females. Aralam village spreads ov ...

are the nearest towns.

References

{{Kannur district Villages near Iritty