Lynmouth, Countisbury Hill 1929
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LYNMOUTH, set on the rocky north coast of Devon, was 'discovered' in 1812 by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who stayed here with Harriet Westbrook, his first wife. They spent nine weeks here and spread word of its beauty to other poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, who described Lynmouth as 'the finest spot … that I ever saw'. Lynton perches at the top of a 1-in-4 hill that leads down to Lynmouth. Visitors can also reach Lynmouth by way of a spectacular cliff railway that descends a sheer cliff of 500 feet. Close by Lynton is the Valley of the Rocks, a 'convulsion of Nature', popular with Victorian artists, and other seekers after the sublime and picturesque. Huge rocks lean precariously, the stacks forming fantastic shapes that worked on the poetic fancy of early visitors.
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