Detail of the Caroline Thorpe Monument on Codden Hill With a Distant View of Barnstaple and the Taw Estuary.

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This monument pillar is in memory of Caroline Thorpe, who was the wife of the local MP Jeremy Thorpe. She died in a car accident in 1970. The monument was designed by Clough Williams-Ellis. Codden Hill is one of a series of ‘whale-backed’ hills formed as a result of the incredible force of colliding tectonic plates. There are great views over Barnstaple, the River Taw and surrounding countryside from here.

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Size: 6000px × 4000px
Location: Codden Hill, Bishop’s Tawton, Near Barnstaple, Devon, England
Photo credit: © John Insull / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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