Seaton (, meaning ''little arrow'', after the river on which it lies) is a village on the south coast of

Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...

, England, at the mouth of the River Seaton east of

Looe Looe (; , ) is a coastal town and civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 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 () a ...

and west of

Plymouth Plymouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers River Plym, Plym and River Tamar, Tamar, about southwest of Exeter and ...

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

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Deviock Deviock is a coastal civil parishes in England, civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately three miles (5 km) west of St Germans, Cornwall, St Germans and straddles the valley of the River Seat ...

.Cornwall Council online mapping
Retrieved June 2010 The village stretches inland along the River Seaton valley. It has two pubs, a beach café. 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 Hessenford () is a small village in south-east Cornwall, United Kingdom, four miles west of St Germans on the A387 Polbathic to Polperro road.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' The village had a population ...

. A

Monkey Sanctuary The Monkey Sanctuary was founded in 1964 by Len Williams, father of classical guitarist John Williams, as a cooperative to care for rescued woolly monkeys. Based in Looe, Cornwall, England, it is home to woolly monkeys descended from the origin ...

with a colony of

woolly monkeys The woolly monkeys are the genus ''Lagothrix'' of New World monkeys, usually placed in the family Atelidae. Both species in this genus originate from the rainforests of South America. They have prehensile tails and live in relatively large so ...

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 The St Germans & Looe Railway was a proposed new railway in Cornwall by the Great Western Railway, providing a direct connection between St Germans and Looe. The railway was proposed in 1935 and authorised in 1936, and work commenced in 1937. ...

in the late 1930s, but the railway was abandoned without the station having been built.

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road sign with Seaton in

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and Seythin in Cornish.

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