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Modern SitesSite Name: Woolacombe MemorialCountry: England County: Devon Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Ilfracombe Nearest Village: Woolacombe
Map Ref: SS45494389
Latitude: 51.173318N Longitude: 4.211628W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Spending a wet New Years afternoon exploring the top left corner of Devon, I stopped at Woolacombe to watch the surf for a while, and saw what looked like a standing stone on the grassy area above the northern edge of the beach.
Closer inspection reveals this to be two nice granite stones, tastefully made into a memorial to the American soldiers of the second World War who were based in this area in the build up to D-Day, using the beaches of Woolacombe and nearby Saunton to practise their invasion techniques.
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