Eype

Eype

Looking west from Eype Mouth
Eype
 Eype shown within Dorset
OS grid referenceSY449917
DistrictWest Dorset
Shire countyDorset
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentWest Dorset
List of places
UK
England
Dorset

Coordinates: 50°43′18″N 2°46′56″W / 50.7218°N 2.7823°W / 50.7218; -2.7823

Eype (pronunciation: /p/) is a small village in southwest Dorset, England,[1] situated in the West Dorset district about 1.25 miles (2.01 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 means "steep place". Many of the village buildings can be traced back to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries, 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 above sea level. In 2011 a beach hut at Eype Beach went on the market for £200,000.[2]

A notable resident was the antiques dealer Paul Atterbury.[3]

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. Harveys Mercury prize-winning Let England Shake[4]

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.

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