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Natural, Undeveloped Beauty
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Poor public transport
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Where the hills and rivers meet the sea.
johngayton Says: Lynmouth's location - "Where Exmoor Meets The Sea" - makes it an ideal base for exploring the delights that the National Park has to offer. The area is criss-crossed with public footpaths and bridleways offering stunning coastal walks, riverside strolls and cardio-vascular...
21 MILE DRIVE - Little Switzerland's Scenic Drive
swilsons Says: The 21 Mile Drive is a 'scenic' figure of eight drive around the beautiful 'Little Switzerland' area of Exmoor National Park.The route takes in Lynton & Lynmouth, the Heddon and Brendon Valleys, Woody Bay, Valley Of Rocks and Watersmeet. We were not disappointed, we managed...
johngayton Says: Lynmouth is an ideal base for walking the North Devon part of the South Coast path but also offers the option of more gentle inland walking opportunities such as following the River Lyn up to where it meets the Hoaroak at Watersmeet and the NT teashop at the cleft. This...
Glen Lyn Gorge - Providing Electricity since 1898!
johngayton Says: A little fascinating thing about Lynmouth is that long before we started to realise that our complacency regarding energy usage is effectively destroying our planet and in the meantime rapidly using up the finite resources that have taken millions of years to mature and...
johngayton Says: One of Lynmouth's little features is that it has one of the highest tidal variations in the country with an average tidal range getting towards 10 metres. In early September/October the high tides can be over 10 metres and locals mention 13.2 metres as the highest ever. Even...
Shelley's Hotel & River Restaurant
7 Reviews and 156 Opinions Overlooking the bay and harbour in Lynmouth, at the foot of the Glen Lyn Gorge, this hotel is...
Shelleys - A 'Hotel Of The Year'
5 Reviews and 156 Opinions What a great hotel, room was lovely and breakfast was delicious, having stayed in the bay room...
Fish on the harbour: Best fish and chips ever
daleandles Says: Eat in or outside in the garden, or take away. Best fish and chips ever. We went back several times and tried the pies as well, which were very good. Fish was in beer batter and very crispy and not greasy. All cooked fresh. Chips were 'real' meaning that they were hand cut....
The Dining Room at The Rising Sun: The Most Intimate Restaurant Ever!
johngayton Says: Over the years I've eaten some excellent meals in some very good restaurants and I've also eaten some absolutely superb meals in what others may denigrate as crappy restaurants. Me I'm not fussy, food is food and there are the times that that 4 am Kebab is the best meal you...
The Bar at The Rising Sun: What Do You Call A Fish With No Eyes?
johngayton Says: Ans: FSHHHHH!! LOL!This is a place I've been meaning to write this tip about for the last couple of years and now I've finally gotten round to it. I must have eaten here dozens of times and never had a bad meal, whether a lunchtime crab sandwich or a full-blown lobster salad...
The Rising Sun Hotel: What We Get Up When The Sun Goes Down ;)
johngayton Says: Most of what happens after dark here in Lynmouth happens behind closed doors, most summer visitors preferring early starts and early nights, whilst the locals tend to use the pubs up top (ie in Lynton). This leaves a small hard-core of drinkers, mostly those of us in the...
johngayton Says: Lynton and Lynmouth have a regular bus service Mondays to Saturdays to and from Barnstaple - the Filers Travel #'s 309 and 310. Buses run roughly hourly during the day but only certain buses go down to Lynmouth itself.The trip into Barnstaple takes just over an hour with a...
R0dn3y Says: We walked from Lynmouth to the Exmoor Sandpiper Inn early one evening. However the walk took longer than expected and by the time we finished our refreshments in the pub it was 8:30pm. We planned to walk back to Lynmouth but it was too dark. There is no lighting on the main...
johngayton Says: One of the village’s regular visitors is this heron who every evening around dusk arrives in search of supper. It stands patiently at pretty much the same spot in the river and whilst I’ve never seen it actually catch anything I assume it must do, otherwise it wouldn’t be...
johngayton Says: In early May the sun sets invisibly behind Hollerday Hill, to the east of the village. Even though you can’t see it setting its dying light still offers some amazingly surreal seascapes outwards over the bay with the Welsh coastline forming the horizon. On this particular...
johngayton Says: No-one seems quite sure how this recent event came about, but a few Augusts ago there seemed to be a spontaneous outburst of scarecrows around the two villages, some with charity collecting tins, others just appearing in all sorts of odd places. This has now become an annual...
johngayton Says: In addition to the annual raft race there is also the Lyn Duck Race, usually the Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend, in aid of the local firefighters benevolent fund and other local charities. This event involves disgorging about 2,000 numbered yellow plastic ducks...
johngayton Says: The annual Lynmouth Raft Race is usually held on a Sunday in July or August, with exact dates and times depending on the tides, and is one of the highlights in everyones' social calendar, whether participating actively or not. The raft race is organised by the local Lyn...
The Wave Turbine Out In The Bay
johngayton Says: Looking out over the bay there is a odd, out-of-place, modern structure protruding relatively inconspicuously from the waters. Doing a little research reveals that this is actually quite a fascinating little experiment into renewable energy resources; generating electricity...
johngayton Says: It may seem a strange place to think of as a sufing destination but autumn here in Lynmouth, with its big 10 metre tides backed with a southwesterly wind, provides some of the best surfing in Britain. OK, perhaps as a "dude location" the local bars are not geared up for the...
Not content with merely generating its own...
johngayton Says: ...electricity (see tip on Glen Lyn Gorge) the footpath between Lynton and Lynmouth is lit at night entirely by solar powered "Street Lights". All of these have been sponsored by local businesses and have the great advantage that they are self-contained units and so needed...
Lynmouth is an area of incomparable beauty
thurstonj Says: This part of Exmoor is an area of incomparable beauty. Lynmouth made popular in Victorian times during which it became affectionately known as Little Switzerland. Surrounded on each side by high steeply sloping cliffs hugging the sides of the wooded River Lyn valley,...
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In the late 1800's as tourism became the lifeblood of the two villages it was recognised that a more efficient method of transport up and down the almost 1000...
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Lynton and Lynmouth are a pair of villages on the North Devon coast, Lynton at the top of the hill, Lynmouth at the bottom, connected not just by road but also by the unique water-powered Victorian......
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Lynmouth Exmoor Devon - "Little Switzerland"
White-washed cottages and shops backed by the dramatic hills and valleys of Exmoor meet the rugged coastline forming the highest seacliffs in England. Here at the confluence of the East and West Lyn...
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The froth-topped waves compete against each other, crashing and crescendoing as the currents tug them hither. The muddily-rippled deep troughs support the breakers, ebbing and flowing as dictated by...
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