Lynmouth is a town in Devon, England, on the north side of Exmoor. The village straddles the confluence of the West Lyn and East Lyn rivers, in a gorge 700 feet (210 m) listed below Lynton, which was the only location to expand to once Lynmouth became as built-up as possible. The towns are connected by the Lynton and also Lynmouth Cliff Railway, which functions 2 cable-connected cars by gravity, using water tanks. Both villages are a civil parish regulated by Lynton and also Lynmouth Town Council. The church boundaries prolong southwards from the coastline, and include districts such as Barbrook and also tiny moorland negotiations such as East Ilkerton, West Ilkerton and Shallowford. The South West Coastline Path and also Tarka Route travel through, and also both Moors Way ranges from Ivybridge in South Devon to Lynmouth; the Samaritans Way South West ranges from Bristol to Lynton, and also the Coleridge Way from Nether Stowey to Lynmouth. Lynmouth was defined by Thomas Gainsborough, that honeymooned there with his bride-to-be Margaret Burr, as "the most delightful place for a landscape painter this country can boast".