Countisbury

Places of Interest

Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Christopher Ware, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse is located on Foreland Point; it was originally simply named 'The Foreland Lighthouse'. First lit on 28 September 1900, the lighthouse was built to assist vessels passing through the Bristol Channel, and is a round brick tower painted white.

Wind Hill

Peak

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Wind Hill, situated close to Lynmouth in Devon, England, is the location of an Iron Age enclosure or "spur" hill fort. The site is effectively a hillside forming a spur or promontory between the steep valley of the East Lyn River to the south and the cliffs to the north.

Church of St John the Baptist

Church

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Church of St John the Baptist is situated 2½ miles west of Countisbury.

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 west of Countisbury.

Brendon

Village

Photo: Peter French, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Brendon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brendon and Countisbury, in the North Devon district, in the county of Devon, England.

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