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Exmouth

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:20:27 GMT

Knitted/crocheted Punch & Judy show on top of a postbox. Postboxes in this country tend to get yarnbombed. They are a stationary target.

( A few random photos of Exmouth town... )

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Lynmouth

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:03:27 GMT

The "Lynton and Lynmouth funicular Cliff Railway opened in 1890 and is the highest and the steepest totally water powered railway in the world..." www.cliffrailwaylynton.co.uk/.

I popped briefly into Lynmouth for tea on my recent visit to Exmoor, and of course I couldn't resist taking the cliff railway, clanking my way up to Lynton, and back down again.

( A few pictures of Lynmouth )

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Exmoor

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:17:14 GMT

Picture taken from one of the roads that runs across the high ground of Exmoor, where there are sheep and Exmoor ponies and red Devon cattle roaming freely, and sometimes wandering along and across the road.

I was quite startled by Exmoor - by how high and how bleak the hills were. I suppose I was expecting something like the New Forest, or the Dorset heaths, with wide expanses of purple heather.

( Other landscapes are available )

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Malmsmead, Exmoor

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 10:31:52 GMT

Malmsmead is tiny. An arched stone bridge with a ford beside it. A National Trust tea room. A gallery. But it's the starting point for a walk along the remote valley of Badgworthy Water, setting of the 19th century romance, Lorna Doone.

( Read more... )

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St Brendan's, Brendon

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:21:06 GMT

Brendon Church, dating from 1738. Dedicated to St Brendan, patron saint of navigators, which seems appropriate, as it is not an easy church to find.

( Not where it's meant to be )

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Exmoor walks: Rockford to Brendon

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:09:39 GMT

Old packhorse bridge, Brendon. Exmoor has so many fabulous ancient bridges. You could do a photography tour just of Exmoor bridges.

( By woods & water )

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Watersmeet

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:22:01 GMT

I have been away, over the border in Devon for a few days, staying on Exmoor. The hills are higher and wider and wilder in Devon, and the valleys and the streams rockier. One day I followed the Coleridge Way long distance footpath from Rockford to Watersmeet.

( An improbable number of pictures )

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Old Church House, Colyton

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:36:55 GMT

Old Church House, Colyton. Dated 1612. Formerly the meeting-place of Colyton's Council, the Feoffees, established in the 16th century. Colyton Grammar School moved into the building in 1612.

( Feoffees )

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Beer

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:30:32 GMT

No, not that sort of beer. Beer is the name of a picturesque fishing village in Devon.

( A quick tour )

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