Martinhoe

Places of Interest

Woody Bay railway station

Railway station

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Woody Bay, within the Exmoor National Park, is a station on the former Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon.

Places in the Area

Lynton and Lynmouth

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Lynton and Lynmouth is a civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England. The parish is named after its two main settlements of Lynton, which stands on a plateau above the Glen Lyn Gorge, and Lynmouth which lies at the foot of the gorge where the West Lyn River and East Lyn River converge and then meet the sea.

Lynton

Town

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Lynton is a town on the Exmoor coast in the North Devon district in the county of Devon, England, approximately 17 miles north-east of Barnstaple and 18 miles west of Minehead, and close to the confluence of the West Lyn and East Lyn rivers. Lynton is situated 3 miles east of Martinhoe.

Lynmouth

Village

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Lynmouth is a village in Devon, England, on the northern edge of Exmoor. The village straddles the confluence of the West Lyn and East Lyn rivers, in a gorge 700 feet directly below the neighbouring town of Lynton, which was the only place to expand to once Lynmouth became as built-up as possible. Lynmouth is situated 3 miles east of Martinhoe.

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