Seaton ( kw, Sethyn, meaning ''little arrow after the river)'' is a village on the south coast of

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, England, at the mouth of the River Seaton 3.8 miles (6.1 km) east of

Looe Looe (; kw, Logh, ) is a coastal town and civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, with a population of 5,280 at the 2011 census. Looe is west of Plymouth and south of Liskeard, divided in two by the River Looe, East Looe ( kw, links= ...

and ten miles (16 km) west of

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.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' The village is in the

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of Deviock.Cornwall Council online mapping
Retrieved June 2010 The village stretches inland along the River Seaton valley. It has two pubs, a beach café, and some shops. 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

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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.

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Image:Seaton, Cornwall 1.jpg, Seaton beach Image:Seaton, Cornwall 2.jpg, The Seaton valley Image:River Seaton.jpg, The River Seaton meets the sea Image:Shaded By Pines - geograph.org.uk - 208061.jpg, A minor road west of Seaton Image:Road sign in Seaton, Cornwall.jpg, A

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road sign with Seaton in

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and Seythin in Cornish.

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