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The wooded bluffs above Minehead feature as the Hermit's abode " in that wood which slopes down to the sea ", in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The poet lived nearby, at Nether Stowey ( between Bridgwater and Minehead ).
His statue can be seen at the nearby harbour at Watchet.
He and Wordsworth ( who lived nearby at Alfoxton House ) would often roam the hills and coast on long night walks ; leading to local gossip that they were ' spies ' for the French.
The Government sent an agent to investigate, but found they were, indeed, " mere poets ".
Cecil F. Alexander wrote the popular Anglican hymn All Things Bright And Beautiful in Minehead and in nearby Dunster the verse:
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