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Extract from the Porlock Travel Guides:
The real enticement of
PORLOCK
, six miles west of Minehead, is its extraordinary position in a deep hollow, cupped on three sides by Exmoor's hogbacked hills. The thatch-and-cob houses and dripping charm of the village's long main street have led to invasions of tourists, some of whom are also drawn by the place's literary links. According to Coleridge's own less than reliable testimony, it was a "man from Porlock" who broke the opium trance in which he was composing
Kubla Khan
, while the High Street's beamed
Ship Inn
prides itself on featuring prominently in the Exmoor romance
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