 The meeting of the Lynmouth rivers. The river seen here is the East Lyn river, the West Lyn River joins it at the white bridge. |
 A car of the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway. Opened in 1890, the railway is a water-operated funicular, 862 feet (263 metres) long, operating on a 1 in 1.75 gradient track. One car descends, while the other ascends, on a counterbalance system. The water is piped from the West Lyn river | Lynmouth is a village in Devon, England. It is on the north edge of Exmoor, at the confluence of the West Lyn and East Lyn rivers. The meeting of the Lynmouth rivers. ...
The meeting of the Lynmouth rivers. ...
A car of the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway. ...
A car of the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway. ...
Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway in 2003 The Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway is a water-powered funicular railway joining the twin towns of Lynton and Lynmouth on the rugged coast of North Devon. ...
Angels Flight, Los Angeles, California with gantlet track configuration Duquesne Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with full length parallel tracks The Gütschbahn in Lucerne, Switzerland – from an 1893 guidebook A funicular, also called funicular railway, inclined railway, inclined plane, or, in the United Kingdom, a cliff railway, is a system of...
A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. ...
Devon is a large county in South West England, bordered by Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2005 est. ...
Dunster Yarn Market (a covered market for the sale of local cloth, built in 1609) and Dunster Castle, Exmoor Exmoor National Park is a national park situated on the Bristol Channel coast of Devon and Somerset in South West England. ...
The village is located across a gorge from Lynton, to which it is connected by the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway. A gorge is a narrow passage between steep mountains or hills. ...
Location within the British Isles Lynton is a small town in Devon, England. ...
Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway in 2003 The Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway is a water-powered funicular railway joining the twin towns of Lynton and Lynmouth on the rugged coast of North Devon. ...
Lynmouth was described by Thomas Gainsborough, who honeymooned there with his 16 year old bride Harriet Westbrook, as "the most delightful place for a landscape painter this country can boast". Self-portrait, painted 1759 This article is about the artist Thomas Gainsborough. ...
The Lynmouth Lifeboat At 7:52pm on 12th January 1899, a 1,900 ton 3-masted ship Forrest Hall, carrying 13 crew and 5 apprentices, was in trouble off Porlock Wier on the North Somerset coast due to a severe gale which had been blowing all day. She had been under tow, but the tow rope had broken. She was dragging her anchor and had lost her steering gear. The ship's destruction was a distinct probability. The alarm was raised for "The Louisa" (the Lynmouth lifeboat) to be launched to assist. However, due to the terrible weather, it was impossible for the lifeboat to be launched. Jack Crocombe, the coxswain of Louisa proposed to take the boat by road to Porlock's sheltered harbour — 13 miles around the coast — and launch it from there. If youre looking for the TV show, see The Apprentice. ...
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A lifeboat is a rigid (or inflatable) boat designed to rescue people in trouble at sea. ...
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The boat plus its carriage weighed about 10 tons, and transporting it would not be easy. 20 horses and 100 men started by hauling the boat up the 1 in 4 Countisbury Hill out of Lynmouth. 6 of the men were sent ahead with picks and shovels to widen the road. The highest point is 1423 feet above sea level. After crossing the 15 miles of wild Exmoor paths, the dangerous Porlock Hill had to be descended with horses and men pulling ropes to stall the descent. The lifeboat eventually reached Porlock Weir at 6:30 am and was finally launched. Dunster Yarn Market (a covered market for the sale of local cloth, built in 1609) and Dunster Castle, Exmoor Exmoor National Park is a national park situated on the Bristol Channel coast of Devon and Somerset in South West England. ...
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Although cold, soaking wet, hungry and exhausted, the crew rowed for over an hour in treacherous seas to reach the stricken Forest Hall and rescue the 13 men and 5 apprentices with no casualties; but 4 of the horses used died of exhaustion. The Forrest Hall was towed into Barry, Wales. Barry (Welsh: ) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. ...
A fuller account of this story can be found in John Travis' book "An Illustrated History of Lynton and Lynmouth".
The event was re-enacted 100 years later, but in daytime.
The Lynmouth Disaster On 15 and 16 August 1952, a storm of tropical intensity broke over south-west England, depositing 229 mm (9 inches) of rain within 24 hours on an already waterlogged Exmoor. It is thought that a cold front scooped up a thunderstorm, and the orographic effect made the result worse. Debris-laden floodwaters cascaded down the northern escarpment of the moor, converging upon the village of Lynmouth. A guest at the Lyndale Hotel described the night: (Redirected from 15 August) August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ...
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1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ...
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Orography is the average height of land, measured in geopotential meters, over a certain domain. ...
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In geology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves an elevation differential, often involving high cliffs. ...
"From seven o'clock last night the waters rose rapidly and at nine o'clock it was just like an avalanche coming through our hotel, bringing down boulders from the hills and breaking down walls, doors and windows. Within half an hour the guests had evacuated the ground floor. In another ten minutes the second floor was covered, and then we made for the top floor where we spent the night."
The river Lyn through the town had been culverted to gain land for business premises; this culvert soon choked with flood debris, and the river flowed through the town. Much of the debris was boulders and trees. A culvert is a flowing body of water which passes underneath a road, railway, or embankment, or the part thereof that does so. ...
Overnight, over 100 buildings were destroyed or seriously damaged along with 29 bridges, and 38 cars were washed out to sea. In total, 34 people died, with a further 420 made homeless.
Similar events had previously been recorded at Lynmouth in 1607 and 1796. After the 1952 disaster, the village was rebuilt, with major efforts made to ensure that the catastrophe would not be repeated. These included diverting the river around the village. Events January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. ...
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In 2001, a BBC Radio 4 documentary featured suggestions that the events of 1952 were connected to government cloud seeding experiments being conducted in southern England at the time. There does not presently seem to be any direct evidence to support such allegations, but conspiracy theories have been fuelled by rumours of missing or destroyed government documents relating to the experiments. This article is about the year 2001. ...
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Cloud seeding, also known as weather modification, is the attempt to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls out of clouds, or their structure, by dispersing substances into the air which allow water droplets or ice crystals to form more easily. ...
A conspiracy theory attempts to explain the ultimate cause of an event or chain of events (usually political, social, or historical events) as a secret, and often deceptive, plot by a covert alliance of powerful or influential people or organizations. ...
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Location within the British Isles Lynton is a small town in Devon, England. ...
Twinning Lynton is twined with: Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ...
Benouville is a commune of the Calvados département, in the Basse-Normandie région in France. ...
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