On the East Lyn (c.1840)

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Devon West Country Studies L SC1547
Devon North Devon Record Office SC1547
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Walters, W. Ilfracombe: a health resort. Ilfracombe: John Tait, 1878. p. 56. The word "Lyn," from which Lynton and Lynmouth derive their names, is the ancient British "Llyn," a stream or torrent, and as both the "Lyns," east and west, are mountain streams, - their sources at Exmoor, - they are, when swollen by heavy rains, literally "torrents," rushing downwards to the sea with resistless force, through two valleys separated from each other by a lofty ridge, until, uniting at Lynmouth Bridge about a quarter of a mile from the sea, they journey somewhat noisily onward in company.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Lithograph
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233x276mm
Series
S143
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Dates
1840