Lynmouth

Peter, you've reminded me of an episode of love at first sight whilst on holiday in Lynmouth a few years ago.

Sliding Doors Peter Ashley 2008

Maggie Smith, from Cornwall, has just emerged from the Movie Bus, a renovated 1960s mobile cinema parked on the shorefront in Lynmouth, Devon.

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On 15 August 1952, the people of Lynmouth in south-west England experienced a downpour like never before.

Meteorological Alchemy 2006

There was the suggestion that a storm that almost wiped out Lynmouth (a town in Cornwall, England) in the 1950's was actually the direct result of the British Government toying with weather-seeding.

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However, few people now think that the cloud seeding was to blame, because the RAF was seeding cumulus clouds, while the rain that deluged Lynmouth came from a large depression sitting over the region.

Meteorological Alchemy 2006

Did you know that in the UK in 1952, a notorious flash flood washed away an entire village called Lynmouth.

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We rode by way of Brendon town, Illford Bridge, and Babbrook, to avoid the great hill above Lynmouth; and the day being fine and clear again, I laughed in my sleeve at Uncle Reuben for all his fine precautions.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

One old man who lived at Lynmouth, seeking to be buried there, having been more than half over the world, though shy to speak about it, and fain to come home to his birthplace, this old Will

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

I was fond of going to Lynmouth on Sunday to hear this old man talk, for sometimes he would discourse with me, when nobody else could move him.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Will Watcombe, the old man at Lynmouth, who had been half over the world almost, and who talked so much of the Gulf-stream, had (as I afterwards called to mind) foretold a very bitter winter this year.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004