Join the Lynmouth and Lynton Town Crier on a leisurely stroll around Lynmouth for about an hour...
This is a fascinating short walking tour around Lynmouth and find yourself in the company of smugglers, wreckers, rescuers, inventors, poets, pirates and pioneers! Led by local raconteur and local Town Crier, Dan Day-Robinson, history comes to life as you listen….!
Just a few of the highlights: Step right back into the human history of our settlement nestled within a 400 million year old coastline -
- Odunne's (the Earl of Devon) message to the Vikings, defeated on this coast
- Lynmouth and democracy: this was the home of Henry de Tracy, one of the rebel barons who forced King John to sign the Magna Carta
- Shipwrecks and skulduggery, smugglers and 'smuggler's leap'
- Lime kilns and herrings
- Cellars and tunnels
- World adventures and hangings
- The floods since prehistoric times which have shaped and shaken Lynmouth
- Sir Francis Drake and John Oxenham: adventure, piracy and execution!
- Who was the rich American buried under the threshold of a restaurant in Lynmouth Street
- Charles Geen and the Devon Electric Light Company: the first stored hydro power scheme in the entire world. The site of the power station and the leat which drove the turbines.
- Sir George Newnes, MP, entrepreneur, and financier who funded the Cliff Railway, the building of the Town Hall and Hollerday House (later destroyed by fire) and the Lynton to Barnstaple railway
- The sad loss of houses and families during the 1952 flood, walking through Middleham Gardens
- The unique ancient woodlands and flora of Watersmeet
- John Crocombe and the 'Overland Launch of the Louisa lifeboat
- Ozymandias and Kubla Khan: recitals from the most famous works of the Romantic poets who visited and stayed in Lynmouth...
