WALKS featuring Shammick Silver and landscapes that inspired authors and poets are on the menu in September with Exmoor National Park Authority.

On Sunday, September 16 join a National Park Authority voluntary guide to visit many of the locations in the story of Lorna Doone. Meet at Brendon Two Gates at 11am for a six hour /10 miles walk. Walking boots/clothing is essential, as is a picnic.

Days later on Wednesday, September 19 people can experience Exmoor's dramatic Heritage coast in an open 30 seat boat with commentary from an Exmoor National Park Ranger.

Meet at 11am Lynmouth (seafront opposite Cliff Railway) for the one-hour journey.

Booking is essential for this event. Call 01598-763466.

On Friday, September 21 you can follow Coleridge's route to Culbone, where he wrote 'Kubla Khan'.

See the scenery that inspired his friends Wordsworth and Southey and modern writers such as Margaret Drabble, during Porlock Arts Festival.

Meet at Porlock Visitor Centre at 10.30am for a five hour/ nine mile walk.

On Sunday, September 23 go with a National Park Authority volunteer guide on a walk to Scoresdown into the Lyn Valley via Myrtleberry Cleave returning via Rockford and Shilstone Hill.

Meet Dry Bridge at 10.30am for the six hour/11 mile walk.

Ending the month of activity on Sunday, September 30, take the chance to visit the restored Victorian sawmill and see how trees felled in vital conservation work are used to create the signs, gates, stiles and bridges that can be found throughout the National Park.

Talk to the sawyer and see first hand how water power and newer methods are used today.

Meet at 10.30am for about 1 hours, cost £3 per person.