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The Best Attractions In Whimple

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Whimple Heritage Centre

Cheddar Gorge

Lulworth Cove

Wookey Hole Caves

Eden Project

The Milky Way Adventure Park

The Tank Museum

Whimple is a village and civil parish in East Devon in the English county of Devon, approximately 9 miles due east of the city of Exeter, and 3 miles from the nearest small town, Ottery St Mary. It has a population of 1,642, recounted to 1,173 for the village alone in the United Kingdom Census 2011. The electoral ward with the same name had a population of 2,380 at the above census. It was listed in the Domesday Book as 'Winpla' which according to the Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names was originally the name of the stream that runs through the village, a Brythonic Celtic name meaning 'white pool' being a compound of the British words correspondi...
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The Best Attractions In Whimple

1. Whimple Heritage Centre Whimple
2. Eden Project Bodelva
3. The Tank Museum Bovington
The Tank Museum is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile north of the village of Wool and 12 miles west of the major port of Poole. The collection traces the history of the tank. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the largest collection of tanks and the third largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world. It includes Tiger 131, the only working example of a German Tiger I tank, and a British First World War Mark I, the world's oldest surviving combat tank. It is the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment and the Royal Armoured Corps and is a registered charity.
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4. Wookey Hole Caves Wookey Hole
Wookey Hole Caves are a series of limestone caverns, a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England. The River Axe flows through the cave. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest for both biological and geological reasons. Wookey Hole cave is a solutional cave, one that is formed by a process of weathering in which the natural acid in groundwater dissolves the rocks. Some water originates as rain that flows into streams on impervious rocks on the plateau before sinking at the limestone boundary into cave systems such as Swildon's Hole, Eastwater Cavern and St Cuthbert's Swallet; the rest is rain that percolates directly through the limestone. The temperature in the caves is a constant 11 °C . Th...
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5. Lulworth Cove West Lulworth
Lulworth Camp is a British Army base that is home to the Armoured Fighting Vehicle Gunnery School and runs the Lulworth Ranges on the southern coast of Dorset, England. It is part of Bovington Garrison and is located on the Purbeck Ridge between the villages of East and West Lulworth. The camp lies immediately southeast of the road junction between the B 3070 and B 3071 and about a mile northeast of Lulworth Cove.
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6. Cheddar Gorge Cheddar
Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be over 9,000 years old, was found in 1903. Older remains from the Upper Late Palaeolithic era have been found. The caves, produced by the activity of an underground river, contain stalactites and stalagmites. The gorge is part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest called Cheddar Complex.Cheddar Gorge, including the caves and other attractions, has become a tourist destination. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Brit...
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7. The Milky Way Adventure Park Clovelly

Whimple Videos

A train trip to Penzance by train from Whimple (Devon) to Penzance (Cornwall)

Summer 2008 -
Features South West Trains 159s and First Great Western HSTs
Locations:
Whimple (on the Exeter to Waterloo line)
Exeter St Davids (SWT 159)
Penzance (HSTs)

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Reindeer at Pennywell Farm, Devon

Pennywell Farm, Devon, UK

FGW HST Diverts | Honiton Station | 12/2/2012

FGW HST Diverts | Honiton Station | 12/2/2012

Tresco heliport Scilly

The heliport on Tresco, Isles of Scilly. At the time of writing, 2016, it is not in regular use.

Welcome To The Winter Riviera !!

The Winter Riviera From Exeter To Plymouth Line in this video we have some class EX London Midland 150's, FGW HST's, 153/150's and XC HST's as well - Thanks to Southernrailwaysfan Even tho we did get lost LOL :)

423417 'Gordon Pettit' Cab Ride

Here we take a small cab ride in 423417 from East Grinstead to the northern point of the Tip. With thanks to 08600ng02shunter.

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