Fine art giclée print on archival paper, 297 x 420 mm (11.7 x 16.5 inch).

If you start walking north, from the edge of the ancient land of Cornwall, and follow the coastal path, you will after several days step through Devon into Somerset. The Atlantic Ocean’s waters start to meet the hill and mountain waters coming down the Avon and Severn somewhere offshore from St Audrie’s Bay, where you will find the clifftop waterfall. Not the tallest, but one of the more striking of England’s clifftop waterfalls. Our language contains the word tawdry. Tawdry is shortened from tawdry lace; originally a corruption of St Audrie lace, the lace sold to pilgrims as a relic, but sold in such abundance that the word was reinterpreted to mean ‘vulgar’ or ‘cheap. The waterfall is always stunning, more so after heavy rains on the moorland above it, but a treat to approach from across the bay. If you time it with the tides, you can entering it down the rusting iron steps at East Quantoxhead (OS Explorer map 140 / 1365 4423) then walk west, or from the coombe at Esson’s Gully (OS Explorer map 140 / grid ref 1185 4365).