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Extract from the Laxey Travel Guides:
Filling a narrow valley, the straggling town of
LAXEY
, seven miles north of Douglas, spills down from its train station to a small harbour and long, pebbly beach, squeezed between two bulky headlands. The Manx Electric Railway from Douglas drops you at the station used by the
Snaefell Mountain Railway
. Shops and a couple of cafs here attempt to divert the crowds who disembark and then head inland and uphill to Laxey's pride, the
"Lady Isabella" Great Laxey Wheel
(Easter-Oct daily 10am-5pm; 2.75), the largest working waterwheel in the world. Otherwise Laxey is at its best down in
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read the whole Laxey Travel Guides...
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