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Extract from the Minehead Travel Guides:
A chief port on the Somerset coast,
MINEHEAD
quickly became a favourite Victorian watering-hole with the arrival of the railway, and it has preserved an upbeat holiday-town atmosphere ever since. Steep lanes link the two quarters of
Higher Town
, on North Hill, containing some of the oldest houses, and
Quay Town
, the harbour area. It is in Quay Town that the
Hobby Horse
performs its dance in the town's three-day May Day celebrations, snaring maidens under its prancing skirt and tail in a fertility ritual resembling the more famous festivities at the Cornish port of Padstow.
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