. The North Devon coast. eye at every turn —hemeant the Valley of Rocks Hotel— it will takea long time to spoil Lynton utterly. Very much more has been done to Lyntonsince then, and building has gone on uninter-ruptedly. The narrow-gauge Lynton and Barn-staple Railway—the Toy Railway, as it isoften called, from its rather less than two-footgauge—-opened in 1898, has been a disappointingenterprise for its shareholders, but has broughtmuch expansion. Probably it would have beena better speculation had its Lynton terminus beenin the town, rather than hidden on the almostinaccessible heights of Mo
. The North Devon coast. eye at every turn —hemeant the Valley of Rocks Hotel— it will takea long time to spoil Lynton utterly. Very much more has been done to Lyntonsince then, and building has gone on uninter-ruptedly. The narrow-gauge Lynton and Barn-staple Railway—the Toy Railway, as it isoften called, from its rather less than two-footgauge—-opened in 1898, has been a disappointingenterprise for its shareholders, but has broughtmuch expansion. Probably it would have beena better speculation had its Lynton terminus beenin the town, rather than hidden on the almostinaccessible heights of Mount Sinai, anotherclimb of about two hundred feet. The service is 24 THE NORTH DEVON COAST so infrequent and the pace so slow that, coupledwith the initial difficulty of finding it at all, thetraveller can perform a good deal of his journeyby road to any place along the route, before thetrain starts. And an energetic cyclist can, any day,make a very creditable race with it. Lynton has now become no inconsiderable. town, very bustling and cheerful in summer: itsnarrow street quite built in with the tall Valleyof Rocks Hotel aforesaid, and a large numberof shops and business premises not in the leastrural. Between them, they contrive to makethe old parish church look singularly out of is just the irony of it ! The interloping,hulking buildings themselves are alien from the LYNTON 25 spirit of the neighbourhood, but they have con-trived to impress most people the other way. How odd, unthinking strangers exclaim, asthey see a rustic church and grassy, tree-shadedchurchyard amid the bricks and mortar ; notpausing to consider that the church has been herehundreds of years, and few of the buildings aroundmore than twenty. But there is little reallyancient remaining of the church, for it was re-built, with the exception of the tower, in 1741, andhas been added to and altered at different timessince then. Quite recently it has again, to allintents, been rebuilt, and f
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