Lynmouth is a village in Devon, England, on the northern side of Exmoor. The town straddles the convergence of the West Lyn and also East Lyn rivers, in a gorge 700 feet (210 m) listed below Lynton, which was the only place to expand to when Lynmouth became as built-up as feasible. The towns are linked by the Lynton and also Lynmouth Cliff Railway, which works two cable-connected vehicles by gravity, using water tanks. Both towns are a civil parish controlled by Lynton and Lynmouth Town Council. The parish limits expand southwards from the coast, as well as include hamlets such as Barbrook and also tiny moorland settlements such as East Ilkerton, West Ilkerton as well as Shallowford. The South West Shore Course and also Tarka Trail go through, and the Two Moors Way ranges from Ivybridge in South Devon to Lynmouth; the Samaritans Way South West runs from Bristol to Lynton, and the Coleridge Way from Nether Stowey to Lynmouth. Lynmouth was explained by Thomas Gainsborough, that honeymooned there with his new bride Margaret Burr, as "the most delightful place for a landscape painter this country can boast".