Edoor is a small town about 6.5 kilometers from

Iritty Iritty is a municipality and taluk in Kannur district of Kerala state, India. The town is the main market place for the farmer communities in the surrounding regions. Iritty is at a distance of from Kannur International Airport and one among ...

Kannur district Kannur () is one of the 14 Districts of Kerala, districts along the west coast in the state of Kerala, India. The city of Kannur is the district headquarters and gives the district its name. The old name, Cannanore, is the anglicized form of th ...

in Kerala, India. Edoor is named by the people from

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. Before their migration these lands were forest.

Economy

Edoor town is a small marketplace for the farmer communities of the surrounding regions. The Akshaya Centre is a local community center that provides access to government documents and assistance to farmers.

Transportation

The national highway passes through

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

town.

Mangalore Mangaluru (), formerly called Mangalore ( ), is a major industrial port city in the Indian state of Karnataka and on the west coast of India. It is located between the Laccadive Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bengaluru, the st ...

and

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can be accessed on the northern side and

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and

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...

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 as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. Known as the City of Spices, Kozhikode is listed among the City of Literature, UNESCO's Cities of Literature. It is the nineteenth large ...

. This place is well-connected to any part of Kannur and other parts of Kerala by road. Long-distance bus service is available through Red Bus.

Tourism

Tourist attractions include the Vembuzha River, St. Mary's Roman Catholic 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 with its headquarters near Iritty. Aralam Wildlife ...

. Kolikadavu,

Angadikadavu Angadikadavu is a town in Kannur district, Kerala, India. It is near the 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 large village and grama panchayat in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala. Aralam grama panchayat bordered to karnataka state in east. Demographics As of 2011 Census, Aralam had a population of 29,328 people which const ...

are the nearest towns.

References

{{Kannur district Villages near Iritty