Countisbury[1] is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brendon and Countisbury, in the North Devon district, in the county of Devon, England.

It is on Exmoor,[2] roughly two miles east of Lynmouth along the A39.

[4] The National Trust owns the other buildings.

[7] Scholars [8][9] now believe the Iron Age promontory fort of Wind Hill on Countisbury Hill was the site of the Battle of Cynuit in 878.

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