Eype ( /iːp/ EEP) is a small village in southwest Dorset, England,[1] situated 1 1⁄4 miles (2 km) southwest of Bridport. It lies on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site on the English Channel and is within the civil parish of Symondsbury.
| Eype | |
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 Looking west from Eype Mouth | |
  Eype Location within Dorset | |
| OS grid reference | SY449917 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | DT6 |
| Dialling code | 01308 |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
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Eype means "steep place". Many of the village buildings can be traced back to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries[citation needed], but little is known in detail until the Victorian era.
To the west of Eype Beach is Golden Cap, the highest cliff on the south coast of England at 191 m (627 ft) above sea level. In 2011 a beach hut at Eype Beach went on the market for £200,000.[citation needed]
A notable resident was the antiques dealer Paul Atterbury.[2]
St Peter's Church is regularly used for art exhibitions, known as Eype Centre for the Arts and was also used to record P.J. Harvey's Mercury prize-winning Let England Shake[3]
The village contains Eype's Mouth Country Hotel, The New Inn (operated by Palmers Brewery), Eype House Caravan and Camping Park and Highlands End Holiday Park.
References
edit- ^ "eype dorset, a delightful village in west dorset". Eype-dorset.co.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ Chris Carson (11 December 2008). "All change at Eype as railway home goes on the market". bournemouthecho.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "PJ Harvey's Eype Church album to be released".
External links
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Media related to Eype at Wikimedia Commons
