LYNTON  and LYNMOUTH, two seaside villages in the

Barn-staple parliamentary division of Devonshire, England, on the Bristol Channel; 17 M . E. of Ilfracombe, served by the Lynton light railway, which joins the South Western and Great Western lines at Barnstaple . Both are favoured as summer resorts . Lynmouth stands where two small streams, the East Lyn and West Lyn, flow down deep and well-wooded valleys to the sea . Lynton is on the cliff-edge, 430 ft. above . A lift connects the villages . The industries are fishing and a small coasting trade . Not far off are the Doone Valley, part of the vale of the East Lyn, here called Badgeworthy water, once the stronghold of a notorious band of robbers and famous through R . D . Blackmore's novel Lorna Doone; Watersmeet, where two streams, the Tavy and Walkham, join amid wild and beautiful scenery; and the Valley of Rocks, a narrow glen strewn with immense boulders . Lynton is an urban district, with a population (1901) of 1641 .