Porlock, The Ship Inn 1890
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Standing at the bottom of the notoriously steep climb of Porlock Hill, the Ship Inn appears little changed today, despite the removal of its attractive rustic wooden porches. Note the lofty chimney rising high over the thatch. It was supposedly in this inn that the prolific writer, Robert Southey, a close friend of Coleridge and poet laureate from 1807, composed his verse on Porlock's 'verdant vale'.
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