Woody Bay
At Martinhoe Cross in Devon — about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Lynton and 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Parracombe — on the north side of the A39 lies a once disused but, in 2004, restored and reopened railway station. Woody Bay was once an intermediate stop on, and is now the main operating centre of, the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway a narrow-gauge line built in 1898, which closed in 1935. Over- and under-bridges and other traces of the line can be seen at various locations along this stretch of the road.
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