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Living: Travel - Walking with Lorna Doone.(Features)

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From: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Date: 20020609
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Byline: BOB HAYWOOD

ISPENT a lovely spring weekend break with two beautiful women - my wife and Lorna Doone.

Wherever you go on Exmoor, you walk hand-in-hand with Lorna. There's a Lorna Doone farm, a Lorna Doone pub - and a Lorna Doone everything else.

To my eternal shame, I hadn't realised that there was a real-life Doone family who used to terrorise the good folk of this remote corner of England. So the classic novel by R.D. Blackmore is fiction based on fact.

As proof, a descendant of the book's hero, John Ridd, still serves the ...

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