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A view of the beach and pill box at Hemsby near Yarmouth, Norfolk

Hemsby

in the county of Norfolk

Pictures of Forde Abbey

a Abbey in the town of Chard, in the county of Somerset
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Axminster, Devon

Axminster (43 Pictures)

a Historic Market Town in the county of Devon

(5.5 miles, 8.9 km, direction SW)

Famous for its carpets often likened to Turkish, Axminster was one of the first West Saxon settlements formed along the River Axe in Devon...

Beach huts

Charmouth (102 Pictures)

a Seaside Town in the county of Dorset

(7.1 miles, 11.5 km, direction S)

This pretty resort grew up in a gap of cliffs overlooking picturesque Lyme Bay. In the days prior to the motor car it was a fashionable coaching stop. One illustrious visitor of.....

Small garden alongside the walkway

Lyme Regis (276 Pictures)

a Seaside Town in the county of Dorset

(8.1 miles, 13.1 km, direction S)

Almost the first thing you notice about this pleasant seaside resort, is the spaciousness of the town. The second, and nothing can prepare you for this, is the sheer scale of Lyme Bay with its splendid views towards the rugged sandstone cliffs west of Eype Mouth...

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Axmouth (16 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of Devon

(10.6 miles, 17.1 km, direction SW)

This quiet resort of colourwashed cottages sitting at the edge of the River Axe was once an important south Devon port...

A picture of Martock

Martock (22 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of Somerset

(11.0 miles, 17.7 km, direction NE)

The interior of Martock's Ham-stone church is perhaps the grandest in all Somerset, the startling effect of the golden stone against the most lavishly decorated of the county's great tie-beam roofs is simply overwhelming...

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Loughwood Meeting House, Dalwood, Near Axminster, Devon. Owned by the National Trust

Loughwood Meeting House (13 Pictures)

(7.5 miles, 12.1 km, direction SW)

17th-century thatched Baptist meeting house, constructed approx 1653...

A view of the Marine Aquarium on the old Cobb with Lyme regis, Dorset, in the background.

Lyme Regis Marine Aquarium (1 Pictures)

(8.0 miles, 12.9 km, direction S)

Where better to see and learn about the creatures of the deep than in an aquarium suite set tantalizingly beside the sea. Well,.....

Barrington Court, Somerset

Barrington Court (49 Pictures)

(8.6 miles, 13.8 km, direction N)

Barrington Court is an attractive 16th-century house built in the engaging "E" shaped style of the period in mellow Ham Hill.....

Montacute House

Montacute House (68 Pictures)

(11.5 miles, 18.5 km, direction NE)

This is one of the most glittering of all the great Elizabethan mansions in England. It is built of glowing honey-coloured Ham.....

Pecorama gardens

Pecorama (20 Pictures)

(13.0 miles, 21.0 km, direction SW)

Pecorama offers a real treat for everyone visiting Beer, a pretty coastal resort which was once the haunt of Smugglers. This.....


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