When Crowds Have Gone ; Keen to Enjoy a Popular Location Out of Season Martin Hesp Takes the Selworthy Circular to Check Out the Jewel in West Somerset's Crown

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THERE'S nothing quite like a tourist honey-pot in the depths of winter. The calendar classic, picture postcard, coach tour- cluttered-type places that put the phrase "theme park" back into Britain are magical when there's no-one else around.

But few of these special places are quite as beautiful as the sanctuary-like Selworthy. Jewel in West Somerset's crown - a target for a thousand calendar and postcard photographers since cameras were invented and probably for some time before that if you count the watercolour-wielding travellers of the last century.

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When Crowds Have Gone ; Keen to Enjoy a Popular Location Out of Season Martin Hesp Takes the Selworthy Circular to Check Out the Jewel in West Somerset's Crown

Selworthy: home of a hundred hikes, each more picturesque, dramatic and ruggedly rural than the next. Deep, moody woods, swathes of high moorland heather, vast Exmoor panoramas, rolling vistas of Porlock's perfect vale, and wild salty glimpses of the Severn Sea - all are on offer within...

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