15-544: Parracombe is a rural settlement 4 miles (6 km) south-west of Lynton , in Devon , England. It is situated in the Heddon Valley, on Exmoor . The population at the 2011 census was 293. A number of Bronze Age barrows exist nearby, along with several other small earthworks throughout the parish. Beacon Castle and Voley Castle , both Iron Age Hill forts , are situated nearby. Rowley Barton ("rough clearing")
30-404: A mansion known as Hollerday House which was located just behind the site. The leading-article writer for The Standard , T. H. S. Escott , described the donation, together with the gift Newnes had also made towards the cost of Putney Library , as "two specimens of conduct which made Newnes the most widely popular as well as prosperous newspaper runner of the new era." The foundation stone for
45-478: A wide wooden balcony above; there were two wide casement windows on the first floor. The central bay and the end bays were faced with decorative black timbers on the first floor and exhibited gables at roof level. Although the design is essentially Tudor Revival style, English Heritage also acknowledged elements of the Domestic Revival style and described the building in the listing details as "one of
60-574: Is served by the following bus services: The Lynton & Lynmouth Cricket Club, founded in August 1876, meet at the Valley of Rocks . Lynton Town Hall Lynton Town Hall is a municipal building in Lee Road, Lynton , Devon , England. The town hall, which was the meeting place of Lynton Urban District Council, is a grade II* listed building . Lynton became popular as a tourist destination in
75-674: The Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway . The South West Coast Path and Tarka Trail pass through, and the Two Moors Way runs from Ivybridge in South Devon to Lynmouth . The Samaritans Way South West runs from Bristol to Lynton and the Coleridge Way from Nether Stowey to Lynmouth. The Valley of Rocks and Wringcliff Bay are 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the west. Evidence of Iron Age activity can be found at
90-576: The River Heddon bridging place, or to protect and supervise silver mining in the area around Combe Martin . It was 40 metres (130 ft) in diameter and 6.2 metres (20 ft) high above the bottom of a rock-cut ditch, which is 2.7 metres (8 ft 10 in) deep. It was built in the late 11th or early 12th century. Parracombe's St Petrock's Church is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust . Until 1935
105-529: The confluence of the West Lyn and East Lyn rivers. Lynton sits directly above the neighbouring village of Lynmouth ; the two settlements are separated by a steep gorge. Lynton is part of the Lynton and Lynmouth electoral ward whose total ward population at the 2011 census was 1,647. The two communities are governed at local level by Lynton and Lynmouth Town Council. The two settlements are connected by
120-399: The finest Domestic Revival examples of its type in the country ". Internally, the principal rooms were the council chamber on the left on the ground floor and the main hall which occupied the full width of the building on the first floor. A bust of Newnes, designed and sculpted by Gilbert Bayes , was unveiled by the author, Arthur Conan Doyle , in the town hall in 1902. A war memorial in
135-528: The form of a polished granite column intended to commemorate the lives of local service personnel who died in the First World War was unveiled outside the building in 1920. The building continued to serve as a meeting place for Lynton Urban District Council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be local seat of government when the enlarged North Devon Council was formed in 1974. Another bust of Newnes, designed and sculpted by Carla Haseltine,
150-425: The late 19th century and the area became an urban district in 1894; further development followed with the opening of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway in 1898. In this context civic leaders decided to procure a town hall: the site selected was open ground to the west of the parish rectory. The cost of the proposed building was financed by a donation from the publisher and politician, Sir George Newnes , who owned
165-421: The nearby Roborough Castle . Lynton's Parish Church of St Mary, stands overlooking the sea, surrounded by shops and hotels. The tower is mainly 13th century but the church itself has been enlarged and altered — most notably in 1741 and in late Victorian/early Edwardian times. Many of the town's buildings were constructed in the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th century. Lynton Town Hall
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#1732783710877180-505: The new building was laid by Mrs Ada Medland Jeune on 11 May 1898. It was designed by Read and Macdonald in the Tudor Revival style and officially opened by Newnes on 15 August 1900. The design involved a broadly symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto Lee Road; the central bay, which was flanked by octagonal stone turrets , featured a wide elliptical moulded archway on the ground floor with stone brackets supporting
195-595: The village was served by a halt on the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway which ran close to the centre of the settlement. 51°11′16″N 3°54′32″W / 51.18774°N 3.90879°W / 51.18774; -3.90879 Lynton Lynton is a town on the Exmoor coast in the North Devon district in the county of Devon , England, approximately 17 miles (27 km) north-east of Barnstaple and 18 miles (29 km) west of Minehead , and close to
210-484: Was a manor mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, along with East and West Middleton. Holwell Castle at Parracombe was a Norman motte and bailey castle built to guard the junction of the east–west and north–south trade routes, enabling movement of people and goods and the growth of the population. Alternative explanations for its construction suggest it may have been constructed to obtain taxes at
225-580: Was given to the town by Sir George Newnes, Bart. , a major benefactor of the town; it was opened on 15 August 1900. He also gave the town the United Reformed Church building (originally a Congregational church) on Lee Road. Lynton and Lynmouth are jointly twinned with Bénouville in France. Lynton was once the terminus for the narrow-gauge Lynton & Barnstaple Railway , which served both towns. As of September 2020 , Lynton
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