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Lynmouth, Countisbury Hill 1929
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More about this scene

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.

A Selection of Memories from Lynmouth

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Lynmouth

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If this has sparked a memory, why not share it here?

My wife and I were staying in Middleham Cottages that night and escaped to the schoolhouse with other survivers. We escaped the village the next day, after a terrifying night, through the Lynmouth Hotel to the bridge by ladder across the water. I have painted the original Middleham Cottages from an old photo as it was before the disaster.
I took a party of friends for a day's outing to Lynmouth and Lynton and travelled on this wonderful cliff railway. It still looks exactly the same! It was a sunny but chilly May day and we started our day's fun with lunch and drinks in The Rising Sun - a lovely ancient inn on the sea front. This was followed by a gentle stroll upstream along the river walk for a mile or so and eventually a return to ...see more