EPW033146 ENGLAND (1930). Lynmouth Street and environs, Lynmouth, 1930

Disused lime kilns

Bonnicott House

This relatively flat area above the wave-cut platform (see pin below) suggests a 'relic feature' also cut by the sea at the time of a relatively higher sea level. Such relative sea level change in this area might be account for by a small amount of isostatic uplift after the last ice age as the weight of the ice sheet that extended south to the Bristol Channel melted away. Behind the flat area is a relic sea cliff (covered in trees) that is now cut-off from the processes that formed it many thousand of years ago. There is a similar, but smaller, 'flat' on the western side of the mouth of the River Lyn to the right of the picture. There are other similar coastal flats along the north Somerset coast that suggest the process is repeated at other locations. Some are much larger as for example at Minehead.

Wave-cut platform (wave-cut bench) - a marine erosion surface formed at the base of a cliff and slope towards the sea. Its horizontal extent being controlled by the tidal range. This active erosion surface is strewn with boulders that have been eroded from the surface and become trapped in the depressions in the structure. See also the pin by trees in the field.

Much of this area was destroyed in the floods of 15-16th August 1952, when the side stream became a ranging torrent down the road. The white, gable fronted Lyndale Hotel features in many pictures of the floods.

St. John the Baptist Church, Lynmouth

Bath Hotel

Rising Sun Hotel

Rock House Hotel

River Lyn

Footbridge

Tors Hotel

Rhenish Tower. Grade II listed.

Drill Hall

Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway