History
East of the village is Bury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort.
In Domesday Book the village was known as "Portloc".
Porlock was part of the hundred of Carhampton.
The area has links with several Romantic poets, and R. D. Blackmore, the author of Lorna Doone, and is popular with visitors. The visitor centre with exhibits and displays about the local area. Also on display are the bones of an Aurochs, discovered on Porlock beach in 1999.
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