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Extract from the Lynton Travel Guides:
West from Porlock, the road climbs 1350ft in less than three miles, though cyclists and drivers might prefer the gentler and more scenic toll-road alternative to the direct uphill trawl. Nine miles along the coast, on the Devon side of the county border, the Victorian resort of
LYNTON
perches above a lofty gorge with splendid views over the sea. Almost completely cut off from the rest of the country for most of its history, the village struck lucky during the Napoleonic wars, when frustrated Grand Tourists - unable to visit their usual continental haunts - discovered in Lynton a domestic piece of Swiss landscape. Coleridge and Hazlitt...
read the whole Lynton Travel Guides...
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