Porlock, The Ship Inn 1923
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The lanes and streets of Porlock wind delightfully between attractive whitewashed and thatched houses, including The Ship Inn with its characteristic external chimney stack in the centre of the street front; the Lake poet William Southey stayed here several times. These stacks are common in the West Country from medieval times to the 17th century, and The Ship's has a good 16th-century round flue.

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