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BAST DOWNE TRENTISHOE.
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BRANCH ROUTE—BARNSTAPLE to LYNTON.
(By way of Combe Martin).
We turn off to the N.E. after crossing the Yeo, and pass (on
our right) Raleigh House, which now occupies the site of the
.old mansion of the Raleighs. Our course then takes us past
the leafy glades of Youlston Park (Sir A. Chichester, Bart),
and so, through an alternation of goodly landscapes, to
EAST DOWN (population 455), whence we diverge to the
N.W., and descend into the valley of Combe Martin (see p.
155), 11 miles.
In this neighbourhood the tourist should visit—
Berrynarbor, and its old mansion, temp. Edward IV.
Bowden, the birth-place of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, 1522.
The Hanging Stone, the boundary-mark of Combe Martin, p. 155.
Smalt.mouth, and its two caverns.
Watermouth (A. D. Basset, Esq.)
The hill road to Lynton is one of the most romantic routes
ever trodden by wayfarer, and commands such noble panoramas
of sea and land as cannot fail to inspire the imagination and stir
the heart. Ascending the Little Hangman, 1083 feet, we after¬
wards conquer, in succession, the difficulties of the Great
Hangman, 1200 feet above the sea level; Holstone Barrow,
1087 feet; and Trentishoe Barrow, ere we enter-TRENTISHOE
(population, 129), where there is a small Church, dedicated to
St. Peter, and proceed through sombre pine woods, filled with
floating shadows, into the fair strange valley of Heddon’s
Mouth.
Climbing the uplands, steep and shadowy, we soon reach
Martinhoe, make for Woodabay and Lee Bay, and pass through
the wondrous valley of rocks to Lynton (See p. 156).
In the neighbourhood of Lynton should be visited—
Lee Abbey (C. Bailey, Esq.), at Lee Bay.
The Waters’-meet.
Countisbury, and its lonesome Church.
The Castle Rock, and the Devil’s Cheesewring (valley of rocks).
The Valley of the West Lyn.
Heddon’s Mouth {Inn: The Hunter’s Rest).