Trayne Valley

“And, if you can stand a roughish scramble, you will do well to penetrate into the woodland scene at the extreme head of the valley. You will find a glen as fine in its way as any in Devonshire, and the whole picture of fir and oak and elm, with the brook rushing over mossy rocks at the bottom of the narrow glen, is like one of the boarder valleys of Dartmoor. It is difficult to believe that Ilfracombe and the fashions are only three miles away.”

The Coast of Devon And Lundy Island: their Town, Villages, Scenery by John Lloyd Warden Page (1895)