Coastal Cornwall - Hawker's Hut near Morwenstow by Andrew Townsend

The isolated stretch of coast near Morwenstow in #Cornwall has seen numerous shipwrecks and, in the past, local people were keen to help themselves to goods washed ashore. Against this background, the Vicar of Morwenstow in the 19th century, the Rev Robert Stephen Hawker, became active in trying to save ships in trouble.
He built a hut on the cliffs, now preserved as Hawker’s Hut by the National Trust, which could act as a lookout. In addition, the vicar, also regarded as an eccentric, would spend time thinking, writing and smoking pipes of opium at the hut, where he entertained guests, including poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and novelist Charles Kingsley.