{"id":7109,"date":"2021-05-18T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:12:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T12:12:49","slug":"in-the-footsteps-of-an-ancient-mariner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=7109","title":{"rendered":"In the footsteps of an Ancient Mariner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1040\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_115750_51249356716_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_115750_51249356716_o.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_115750_51249356716_o-400x195.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_115750_51249356716_o-600x292.jpg 600w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_115750_51249356716_o-150x73.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Porlock Weir, the former home to Samuel Taylor Coleridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1040\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114805_51250404680_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114805_51250404680_o.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114805_51250404680_o-400x195.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114805_51250404680_o-600x292.jpg 600w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114805_51250404680_o-150x73.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Worthy Combe Toll Lodge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1040\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114252_51249356486_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114252_51249356486_o.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114252_51249356486_o-400x195.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114252_51249356486_o-600x292.jpg 600w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114252_51249356486_o-150x73.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fairy Tunnel, Ashley Combe House former home of Ada Byron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tunnels date back to 1835 and the construction of the Italianate gardens. Presumably built to allow the 1st Earl Lovelace and his wife to visit the adjacent beach unseen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1040\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_113536_51250110644_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_113536_51250110644_o.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_113536_51250110644_o-400x195.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_113536_51250110644_o-600x292.jpg 600w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_113536_51250110644_o-150x73.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the walk up the slope to Culborne Church being fairly steep the stone seat was built as a resting point for the nearby villagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1040\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114158_51249356456_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114158_51249356456_o.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114158_51249356456_o-400x195.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114158_51249356456_o-600x292.jpg 600w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_114158_51249356456_o-150x73.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not too difficult to imagine the Earl walking over the bridge and down the steep slope to the shingle beach below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1040\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_105933_51248634997_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_105933_51248634997_o.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_105933_51248634997_o-400x195.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_105933_51248634997_o-600x292.jpg 600w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_105933_51248634997_o-150x73.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Culborne Church, first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 and the smallest parish church in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_093441_51250108954_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_093441_51250108954_o.jpg 840w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_093441_51250108954_o-400x194.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_093441_51250108954_o-600x291.jpg 600w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_093441_51250108954_o-150x73.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Orange tip in the adjacent woodland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" 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class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Common Cow-wheat<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_102232_51249355281_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_102232_51249355281_o.jpg 840w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_102232_51249355281_o-400x194.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_102232_51249355281_o-600x291.jpg 600w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_102232_51249355281_o-150x73.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Parsonage Farm reputedly the location where Coleridge wrote \u2019Kubla Khan.\u2019 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_092732_51249354501_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_092732_51249354501_o.jpg 840w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_092732_51249354501_o-400x194.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_092732_51249354501_o-600x291.jpg 600w, https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210517_092732_51249354501_o-150x73.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Really impressed, despite plenty of visitors once we were off the path leading up to the church the wooded valley was incredibly tranquil. A bit steep in places but stunning scenery and historical interest made the walk really enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porlock Weir, the former home to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Worthy Combe Toll Lodge Fairy Tunnel, Ashley Combe House former home of Ada Byron. The tunnels date back to 1835 and the construction of the Italianate gardens. 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