On the far right, opposite the end of the pier and hidden by the
Devon mist, is Larkstone Cove, site of a lime kiln where Welsh
coal burnt Welsh limestone to produce the lime that was vital to
regulate
The railway (then the South Devon, which was taken over by the great Western in 1878) came to Paignton in 1859, and eventually ran through to Kingswear.
John Keats was enchanted with the waterside scenery at Babbacombe when he visited, and declared that it offered the finest prospects he had seen in Devon.
Exmouth prospered as a holiday resort - the first in Devon - from the early 18th century, coming into its own when the Continent was closed to visitors during the Napoleonic Wars.
Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other side of the valley of the River Devon
The landscape is far more rugged, and the climate less mild; local writer Charles Kingsley described the weather as combining 'the soft warmth of south Devon with the bracing freshness of the Welsh mountains
The
village is certainly one
of Devon's prettiest,
not least for its setting,
strung in a series of
hamlets around the
junction of several
pastoral and wooded
combes.
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