Wild, wind-scoured and geologically spectacular, the Valley of Rocks at Lynton on the North Devon coast appears here in a striking real-photograph postcard that conveys the scale and drama of this extraordinary dry valley — its jagged tors of Devonian sandstone framing a road that curves beside what appears to be a flooded valley floor glistening under a pale sky, with Castle Rock's distinctive silhouette breaking the skyline at centre. The Valley of Rocks, carved by an ancient river diverted during the last Ice Age, inspired both Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, who walked here in 1799 composing the poem that would become "The Wanderings of Cain." By the interwar period the valley had become one of Devon's premier scenic attractions, accessible by the famous Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway opened in 1890. This card, marked "British Manufacture" and "This is a Real Photograph," bears no publisher credit but the clean, high-contrast photographic quality suggests a professional regional publisher of the 1930s. Unposted and in very good condition, with strong shadow detail in the rocky outcrops.