View NNW across Frenchman's Landing cove, Lundy Island, Devon, UK: Queen Mab's Grotto sea cave (centre L) & the propped granite slab mousetrap rear R.
View NNW across Frenchman's Landing cove, Lundy Island, Devon, UK, showing Queen Mab's Grotto sea cave (centre L) & the propped granite slab below a natural hole in the rock known as Mousehole and Trap (rear R). Queen Mab is the Celtic fairy of dreams, her grotto is a natural cave formed in the Pleistocene when sea levels were much higher. The cove is named after French invaders who are believed to have landed here during the reign of William III (1688-1702). The cove is on East Sideland immediately N of Brazen Ward, N of Threequarter Wall.
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Location: Queen Mab's Grotto, Frenchman's Landing, Lundy Island, North Devon, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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