Directly north of Exeter, on the boundary between North Devon and Somerset, one encounters the beautiful (and occasionally sublimely barren) Exmoor, another of England's national parks (265 square miles). Its landscapes range from rolling hills to forest to rugged coastline (from which one can see the southern coast of Wales). Coleridge and Wordsworth explored these moors and R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone (1819) describes the wildness of these moors.