Lympstone

Map sources for Lympstone at grid reference SX990839

Lympstone is a village and civil parish in English county of Devon. It has a harbour on the estuary of the River Exe.

Lympstone has rail services on the "Avocet Line" to Exmouth and Exeter from Lympstone Village railway station.

Near the village is the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM), the principal military training centre for the Royal Marines. The training centre has its own dedicated railway halt, Lympstone Commando, (not in public use) on the Exeter- Exmouth branch line.

Ralph Lane, equerry to Queen Elizabeth I, was born in Lympstone. He was a soldier who went with Sir Walter Raleigh on his second expedition to the New World in 1585. He founded a colony on Roanoke Island amidst great hardship and deprivation. He was later present at the defeat of the Spanish Armada.