Tourist's Guide to North Devon and the Exmoor District (1880)
by Richard Nicholls Worth (9780217903219)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Road Excursion. II. MINEHEAD TO TORLOCK, LYNTON, AND LYNMOUTH, The distance from Minehead to Lynton (which and Lynmouth may be treated in this respect as practically one and the same) is 18m., reckoned as 20m. for posting. Minehead to Porlock is but 6m. During the summer months a coach runs every week-day between Minehead and Lynton, passing through Porlock. Fares: Is. inside, 6s. out. The coach is in connection with the trains, leaving Lynton in the morning and returning in the evening. There are three ways of reaching Porlock from Mine- head. The coach road is good and pleasant, winding for the most part along the lower ground between the coast ridge and the flank of Exmoor, and passing by sylvan Holnicote (Sir T. D. Acland). Those who foot it, have time to spare, and are not afraid of a scramble, should follow on by the coast as nearly as possible, in continuation of the excursions to North Hill and Greenaleigh. For ordinary purposes, however, the middle course is the best?the road from the upper part of Minehead by the S. flank of the coast range, keeping straight forward along the valley, and then over the hill to the charming little village of Sdworthy, with its pretty ch. (Perp.) and sylvan surroundings. From the hill immediately before reaching Selworthy there is a fine view of Dunkery Beacon, frowning bald and brown over the verdant lowlands. So high is the table-land from which it rises, and so gradual is the slope of its gaunt sides, that its great height (1668 feet) is not at first recognized. Far away in the distance too we get a peep of the little port of Porlock Weir. After passing the ch. (note the cross in the churchyard) there is a choice of roads. That to the left continues through one of the leafiest, loveliest lanes in all Somerset, worthy of t...

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