Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The Bristol Channel District Guide - selected articles - [1934 Edition] . . . .

Approaching the rocky Countisbury Foreland, with its Lighthouse, 200 feet above high water, and showing a white light visible at a distance of 21 miles, we draw in closer to the shore, and thus finish the journey with every facility for enjoying the magnificent scenery of the North Devon coast, remarkable for its crags, chasms, rocky headlands, and combes.

" From the sea, " as the late Mr. James Baker, the novelist, remarked, " the coast now exceeds in beauty the more widely known Kyles of Bute. "

Precipitous headlands of beautiful formation and of lovely hues jut in and out, and shelter bays where no landing can be effected, and where the grass-grown heights tower up above the grey and ruddy rocks some thousand or fifteen hundred feet.

The sea now rolls in against these rocks in purest blue when the sky overhead is unclouded ; and the white foam leaps high on to the multi-coloured rocks, and increases their beauty as it leaves them glittering in the sunlight.

No foot of man ever trod many of these precipitous heights ; but the green slopes are specked with feeding sheep that seem to cling to the hill-side. This beauty can only be seen from the deck of yacht or steamer. "

On the Foreland shores are several caves called the " Gun Chambers, " from the noise which the sea makes in them resembling that of the discharge of distant guns. The largest, situated on this side of the point, has an entrance about 40 feet high, and extends into the rock a distance of about 200 feet, rendering exploration impossible without the aid of a light.