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Woolacombe (/ ˈ w ʊ l ə k ə m /) is a seaside resort on the coast of North Devon, England, which lies at the mouth of a valley (or "combe") in the parish of Mortehoe. The beach is 2 miles (3.2 km) long, sandy, gently sloping and faces the Atlantic Ocean near the western limit of the Bristol Channel.
Putsborough is a hamlet in Georgeham Civil Parish on the west-facing coast of North Devon, England.It is about 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 km) north of the village of Croyde and 1 mile (1.6 km) west-northwest of the village of Georgeham. 0.5 miles (0.8 km) north of the hamlet is Putsborough Sands, which forms the southern part of the two-mile-long (3 km) beach of Woolacombe Sand on Morte Bay.
For these people, "beachcombing" is the recreational activity of looking for and finding various curiosities that have washed in with the tide: seashells of every kind, fossils, pottery shards (sea pottery), historical artifacts, sea beans (drift seeds), sea glass (beach glass), driftwood, and messages in bottles. Items such as lumber, plastics ...
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QUINCY − The city's Park Division is nearing completion on the new Beachcomber Park along Quincy Shore Drive. More than 2,000 native plants will go into the site across from Wollaston Beach ...
Lee Bay or just Lee is a small village on the North Devon coast near Woolacombe.Lee is situated on the rugged and inhospitable stretch of coast between Ilfracombe and Woolacombe, which includes Bull Point (with its lighthouse) and Morte Point, both notorious for shipwrecks in earlier times, and both on the South West Coast Path.
It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991. To save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network.
The beach at Woolacombe, North Devon, England, in July 2009. Date: Taken 3rd July 2009. Source: My own photo, taken with a Canon PowerShot A720IS. Author: Myself (Adrian Pingstone). Permission (Reusing this file)