[1] There is a harbour on the estuary of the River Exe,[2] lying at the outlet of Wotton Brook between cliffs of red breccia.

[3] The promontory to the north of the harbour is topped by a flat pasture, Cliff Field, that is managed by the National Trust and used for football matches and other local events.

[5] The riverside houses back directly on to the shore, with no continuous seawall, and the passageways between them to the beach are equipped with metal flood gates that are closed by residents when they are warned of high tides by a local alert network.

[6] Lympstone celebrates the annual tradition of the Furry Dance on the first Saturday of August.

The training centre has its own dedicated railway halt, Lympstone Commando (not in public use), on the Exeter–Exmouth branch line.

Richard son of Earl Giselbert has a manor called Leuestona which saward held on the day on which King Edward was alive and dead and it rendered geld for one hide and one virgate.

[8]A significant Lord of the Manor of Lympstone was William de Tracy, one of the four knights who killed Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury.

From around 1327, the Dynham family bought the manor and took up residence at Nutwell court, then a fortified castle.

In 1459, Edward, Earl of March, with the Duke of Warwick and the Neville family, took refuge at either the hunting lodge at Gulliford, or the castle at Nutwell, before John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham financed a ship which took the fleeing royal party to Calais.

Sir Francis Drake, the famous admiral, perhaps visited the hunting lodge at Gulliford and inspiring the Californian Poppy fresco that survives.

He was the son-in-law of Sir Henry Pollexfen, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas - who bought Nutwell court in 1685.

[7] The manor, and Nutwell - reunited, were eventually passed to the third baronet's daughter, Anne Pollexfen-Drake who married George Augustus Elliott, 1st Baron Heathfield in 1748.

He was succeeded by his nephew, Thomas Trayton Fuller, who adopted the surnames Elliott and Drake.

"[7] On 12th June 1833, a fire broke out at a fisherman's cottage when a frying pan being used to cook mackerel set the chimney alight.

The end of manorial rule allowed for the development of newer housing estates in Upper Lympstone.

in 1940, land north of Nutwell was sold to develop the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM).