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Polzeath, Cornwall

Polzeath, Cornwall

North Cornwall's wonderful surfing beaches are famous for their laid-back vibe. But walk along the cliffs east of Polzeath and you'll be reminded of a dark passage in British history. A few hundred metres past Pentire Point, a plaque marks the place where, in 1914, the poet Laurence Binyon composed For the Fallen. The poem's famous fourth stanza appears on war memorials throughout Britain:

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

 
 
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