Kingswear
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Kingswear is a village and civil parish in the South Hams area of the English county of Devon. The village is located on the east bank of the tidal River Dart, close to the river's mouth and opposite the small town of Dartmouth. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and has a population of 1,332, reducing to 1,217 at the 2011 census.
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Place details
- Locality
- South Hams
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Kingswear and the Dart s1.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Kingswear as seen from Dartmouth
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Kingswear
- UK place.population
- 1,217
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.shire_county
- Devon
- UK place.shire_district
- South Hams
- UK place.civil_parish
- Kingswear
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Totnes
- UK place.post_town
- DARTMOUTH
- UK place.postcode_area
- TQ
- UK place.postcode_district
- TQ6
- UK place.dial_code
- 01803
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SX881510
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- South Hams
- Population
- 1217
- Image
- Approaching Kingswear slipway - geograph.org.uk - 1336392.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01803
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- Kingswear
- postal code
- TQ6
- OS grid reference
- SX881510
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Kingswear is a village and civil parish in the South Hams area of the English county of Devon. The village is located on the east bank of the tidal River Dart, close to the river's mouth and opposite the small town of Dartmouth. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and has a population of 1,332, reducing to 1,217 at the 2011 census.
Kingswear is noted for being the railway terminus for Dartmouth, a role continued to this day by the presence of the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway in the village. Two vehicle ferries and one pedestrian ferry provide links to Dartmouth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kingswear” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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