Mollys Garden

The land below Houns Tout has no name on modern maps, although was once known as Mollys Garden. Who Molly was or why she had a garden here is lost to time; well to me anyway. The land is a rough and ready mix of landslide, rock fall and rough grasses with hollows filled with bramble and course shrubs along with any variety of spiky plant; as I found out trying to make it to the remains of the old carriage drive build below the cliff built by the Earl of Eldon to link Chapmans Pool to Encombe. All that can really be seen of this route is a entrance cutting on the Chapmans Pool side. I was hoping to find some evidence of its course, although I understand most evidence has been truncated by slides over the years. I think I'll have to try another angle next time. 

A the base of Molly Garden, just above the shore are the remains of a small, though sturdy building of stone. The walls of the building would have been about 0.4m or so thick, with a nicely cut stone slab floor, the interior would have been about 4m by ?m. The last figure of ?m is such as much of the building has been truncated at the shore end, so the shape of the building is uncertain; it could have been square, although it is more likely to have been rectangular as with several of the building around Chapmans pool.  A good spot with fine views, it's clearly used as a wild camp site or fishermans camp, with a well used fire pit and a good supply of gathered drift wood.