Community News Release
Issue 30 February 2008
Welcome to the thirtieth edition of Dartmoor National Park Authority’s Community News, helping to keep you up to date with the latest issues, developments and work on the ground within the National Park.
If you edit or contribute to any community newsletter/magazine please feel free to use any of the information contained in this News Release. All issues of Community News can be accessed on the Dartmoor National Park Authority web site at www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk (click on In the News).
Dartmoor National Park Authority Meetings
Agendas for full Dartmoor National Park Authority meetings and Development Control Committee meetings are available on the Authority's web site. These Agendas are placed on the web site 7 days in advance of the meetings.
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This issue of Community News contains articles on:
- New Haytor Information Centre
- Historic Features Grant Scheme Update
- Draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West
- Local Strategic Partnerships and Sustainable Community Strategies
- Local Development Framework: Core Strategy update
- Manaton Dormouse Project
- Computers for Charity
- Restoring Ancient Woodland at Black-a-Tor Copse
- Hedgelaying training course
- Dartmoor Educators’ Forum 2008
- Exhibitions at the High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown 2008/09
- RAF Harrowbeer
This issue of Community News also contains:
- News from the Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund
- Community Noticeboard
- A story of two dams
- Moor Produce
1 October 2007 saw the start of construction of the long awaited new Information Centre at Haytor. This will replace the existing portakabin and toilet block and will be sited on enclosed land owned by the National Park Authority adjacent to the site of the current Centre. The new Centre will include a variety of information and interpretation to further promote the understanding and enjoyment of the area of Haytor Down and enhance the visitor experience. The Centre will be complemented by enhanced guided walks, a self-guided walks publication and educational activities. The building has been designed incorporating sustainability options for example making use of natural or recycled materials, such as sheep wool insulation and blocks with high recycled content, and ensuring the use of locally sourced materials, wherever possible. For example, all of the timber used for both the timber frames and roof structure has been supplied by a local sawmill from sources in Devon and Cornwall, and Delabole slate from Cornwall is being used for the roof. |  |
If the build project continues on programme, then we hope that the new Centre will be open at the end of May 2008.
More information on the build and its progress is available on the Dartmoor National Park Authority website. www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk
Historic Features Grant Scheme Update
Dartmoor National Park Authority’s Historic Features Grant Scheme, which has been running for a number of years, is designed to help, through grant aid or help in kind, the repair and/ or restoration of historic features on Dartmoor. The Scheme is open to both private owners and organisations such as parish councils.
The variety of features which have been assisted through the Scheme reflects the diversity of artefacts and structures of historic interest found within the National Park. In the last twelve months the Authority has helped to ensure a fascinating selection of Dartmoor historic features are repaired or restored. The one surviving wall of the medieval Ilsington Manor, standing in the north eastern part of the Churchyard had for many years been totally concealed by ivy. Although some clearance work had been carried out by volunteers, the Ilsington Church Wardens requested assistance to remove and treat the remaining inaccessible and thicker clumps of ivy. With the wall being once again visible, a full archaeological survey was carried out and the wall was then consolidated. |  |
 | At the request of Cornwood Parish Council a circular granite trough, used by horses to drink from on their steep journey up Tor Hill, was restored and secured in its original roadside position. Marchant’s Cross at Meavy is one of the tallest, impressive, and most photographed medieval stone crosses on Dartmoor. The old dry stone wall and hedge bank immediately behind the cross was in a very poor state of repair. The owner applied for grant aid to help towards the costly job of rebuilding this. |
Lydford Parish Council applied for grant aid towards the cost of replacing Captain Hunter’s Plaque which stands above the river Lyd. The plaque commemorating Captain Nigel Hunter MC and Bar who lost his life in the First World War, has a poem written by him on it which contrasts the peace and tranquillity of the Moor with the horrors surrounding him at Ypres. The original bronze plaque had become almost illegible; fortunately the Hunter family still had the original mould and so an exact replacement could be cast and erected. |  |
At Belstone, the Parish Council requested help in restoring the small granite seat which is situated at Birchy Lake Moorgate. The seat, using granite from the former stone cutting yard in the village, was erected in the early twentieth century by Lt Col Hutchinson of Resugga to give his wife a place to take rest on the steepest part of her walk back from the village.
Fat Man’s Trouble at South Brent, so called because it is extremely narrow, is a public foot path running from Aish up beside the river Avon. The owner had previously organised and financed repair work for a large section of this, but requested help towards the capping of the wall to complete the job.
A number of gateposts have also been restored and repaired through the Scheme including the gatepost to the Churchyard gate at Buckland-in-the-Moor.
Some of the consolidation work has been carried out using the expertise of the National Park Authority’s Conservation Works Team. The letters and verbal expressions of thanks received for the help given under the Historic Features Grant Scheme are testimony to its success and prove a need to continue this important area of work.
For more information visit www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk
Draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West: panel report published
Regional Spatial Strategies (RSS) form the broad policy framework for the production of local planning documents. The Draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West, which looks at the future of the region up to 2026, was the subject of its public examination in 2007 in front of an independent panel and the panel’s report was published on 10 January 2008.
The panel has found the draft strategy to be sound in most respects but has queried the estimates of growth for housing that needs to be allowed for. They have recommended significant increase in housing development across the region pushing the annual rate of provision from 23000 to 28000 dwellings per year and a higher proportion of affordable homes. The draft strategy’s indicative figure of 1000 houses in the Dartmoor National Park to meet strictly local needs only over the period of the strategy has not however been recommended for change by the panel.
Moreover the panel has not recommended any change to the main policy in the draft Regional Spatial Strategy relating to the Dartmoor National Park and other protected landscapes in the region. The Authority is pleased to see that the policy and the continued protection for protected landscapes that it offers has emerged intact following the examination process.
The Secretary of State for Communities will now consider the panel’s report and will publish proposed changes to the draft RSS in the spring for public consultation. The final version of the RSS is expected to be published in Autumn 2008.
Local Strategic Partnerships and Sustainable Community Strategies
Dartmoor National Park Authority is a partner in four key Local Strategic Partnerships; the Devon Strategic Partnership, which covers all of Devon apart from Plymouth and Torbay, and the 3 district level Strategic Partnerships of Teignbridge, West Devon and South Hams. These Partnerships are where representatives from a wide range of public, private, voluntary and community sector organisations meet and work together to agree strategic priorities, objectives and actions.
Over the last year or so, work has been focused on reviewing the Sustainable Community Strategies. Each strategy sets out a vision for the area, identifies key priorities for action, indicates how partners are addressing these priorities and identifies any additional actions that the Local Strategic Partnership will undertake together. The Sustainable Community Strategies now form the the primary strategic document, influencing planning and future direction of all partners.
The Sustainable Community Strategies for West Devon (2007-2010), Teignbridge (2007-2011) and South Hams (2007-2011) have now all been published and as you would imagine, many similar themes to those identified in the new Dartmoor National Park Management Plan have emerged. Work is now continuing on developing action plans and partnership projects, ensuring that practical links are made between the strategies and the Management Plan. To look at the Sustainable Community Strategies or for further information on the work of each Strategic Partnership follow the links from the Community Planning page of our web site.
Local Development Framework: Core Strategy update
In June 2007, the National Park Authority submitted the Core Strategy Development Plan Document to the Secretary of State. The Core Strategy is part of the Local Development Framework and sets out the vision, aims and strategy for spatial development in the Dartmoor National Park in the period up to 2026. In turn, it provides the foundation for drafting more specific development control and site related policies.
The Core Strategy was being prepared at the same time that the Dartmoor National Park Management Plan was being reviewed and the opportunity was taken to build linkages between these two documents, both vitally important for the future of Dartmoor.
The independent examination of the Core Strategy was carried out by Mr Alan Foster, an Inspector appointed by the Planning Inspectorate. The examination closed just before Christmas 2007 and Mr Foster’s report is expected at the end of February 2008.
Some of the points that were considered during the examination included:
- Will the Core Strategy policies deliver the draft Regional Spatial Strategy vision of housing for ‘strictly local needs only’?
- Can the list of 34 Rural Settlements be justified? Should Meavy, North Brentor, Walkhampton and Dousland be deleted from that list?
- Should the minimum 10% figure for the on-site provision of renewable energy for larger developments be increased?
The Inspector’s report will say whether the Core Strategy is fundamentally sound and indicate any changes that should be embodied in the final document.
Work will begin in the near future on assembling the evidence needed to produce the next two planning documents - the development control and site specific policies document and the minerals and waste development document. Feedback from local communities will be particularly important in preparing both documents and the Authority will ensure that full local publicity and consultation opportunities are made available.
As part of its work to support Dartmoor’s dormice, Action for Wildlife: The Dartmoor Biodiversity Project (AFW) has been keen to support a local project co-ordinated by Andrew Taylor, a Manaton resident with a passion for dormice. Dormice are known to inhabit the area but it is not known how many there are or the areas they use. AFW funded 70 dormouse nest-tubes which were set up by Andrew last summer in hedgerows and gardens around the village; with the support of local residents, Rob Taylor Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) Ranger and Cate Jackson AFW Assistant Project Officer.
 | Installing nest-tubes (made from plywood and recycled tree guards) is a recommended surveying technique for dormice because this animal is typically nocturnal and rarely seen. If dormice are present, it is hoped that they will build summer nests in the tubes to raise their young. They will hibernate lower to the ground during the winter months. As well as providing data about Manaton’s dormouse population, residents will have the opportunity to learn more about dormice and their habitat requirements, plus, the scheme fits in well with the Parish Plan. |
The hazel dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius, is rapidly declining in the UK, mainly due to habitat fragmentation. The dormouse is a key species in the Dartmoor Biodiversity Action Plan, although Devon is considered to be a stronghold for this mammal. Dormouse numbers across Dartmoor are unknown. However, some idea of their presence in certain areas has been obtained from people sending in records of dormouse-nibbled hazelnuts to AFW. Dormice are associated with woodlands, hedgerows and scrub that produce flowers, berries and nuts and attract insects. They rely on these habitats for shelter, moving between them to feed and breed. It is essential that these natural corridors are available to enable them to migrate across the countryside which allows for a healthy dormouse population.
Andrew is a licensed dormouse worker and whilst conducting the first nest tube checks, he excitedly reported the first dormouse seen using a tube only a few weeks after it was installed. Andrew plans to continue raising awareness of dormouse ecology; emphasising the need for sensitive hedgerow and woodland management… and to report signs of dormice.
If this report inspires you to search for signs of dormice in your area, then please refer to the leaflet Dartmoor Dormouse Survey…in a nutshell which can be downloaded from the publications page of the AFW web site www.actionforwildlife.org.uk (external link, opens new window) or phone AFW on (01626) 831072.
Towards the end of 2007 Dartmoor National Park Authority made a donation of 20 old computers to an organisation called Computers for Charity. These were computers which had been replaced as they were over 5 years old, but were still working. Computers for Charity take the computers and cleanse the hard drives to prevent any possibility of data being retrieved from them. They then ship the computers to Africa where they are set up and used in local schools. This was the second phase of donations with the total number of complete computers donated by the Authority being around 40.
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For further information visit: http://www.computersforcharity.org.uk/ (external link, opens new window).
Restoring Ancient Woodland at Black-a-Tor Copse
Black-a-Tor Copse, near Meldon, is one of three small, relict ‘wildwoods’ on Dartmoor (the others being Wistman’s Wood and Piles Copse). Natural England, who leases the wood from the Duchy of Cornwall, has long been concerned about the absence of young seedlings and saplings from this important upland oak wood. At the same time, a group of oak trees in the middle of the wood died, victims of naturally occurring honey fungus. Action was clearly needed to help the oaks, and the abundant acorns following the excellent mast year of 2006 was the catalyst.
Sheep appear to a problem at Black-a-Tor Copse. Oak saplings were being nibbled and pruned as soon as they grew more than about 15cm tall above the granite clitter. Grazing at appropriate levels is essential to maintain features such as the abundant mosses and lichens which are characteristic of upland oak woodland, so it would not be appropriate to fence the whole wood. The answer was to install a series of small fenced areas (‘exclosures’) to keep out the sheep, and leave them in place for just long enough to allow the trees to grow out of reach of hungry mouths. Natural England agreed to fund the work.
| A great idea in theory, but as Simon Bates of Natural England and Richard Knott of the Restoring Ancient Woodlands Project were to find out, achieving this in practice was to be quite a challenge! The difficulties of transporting 100 wooden fence posts and 300 metres of plastic netting the two miles from the nearest road were overcome when the military offered to airlift the fencing materials by helicopter. This undoubtedly saved hours of back-breaking and ankle-twisting slog up the valley from the nearest access point. |  |
Fencing on such steep, granite boulder-covered slopes was achieved with a fine display of teamwork, involving Natural England staff from Exeter and Yarner Wood, the DNPA Conservation Works team, Trees and Woodlands section, Rangers and a group of volunteers from the Prince’s Trust.
Twenty small fenced exclosures were constructed along the top edge of the wood. It is too early to assess how the oaks, rowans and other vegetation will respond. We are however very pleased with the way the fencing blends in without spoiling the naturalness of the woodland. If all goes well, in five or ten years the fences can be dismantled and perhaps moved elsewhere to give more acorns and oak saplings the chance to grow in this truly ancient woodland.
Ford Farm, Sticklepath was the venue for two hedgelaying training courses, run by the Authority in partnership with the Devon Rural Skills Trust during the early part of January. Sixteen people took part, learning how to lay a typical Dartmoor hedge in traditional style, using only traditional tools. No secateurs, loppers, or baling twine here! The weather for the first week was kind, and landowners Helen and Tony Clark offered a plentiful supply of tea, coffee and biscuits in appreciation |  |
The second week saw more rain, and made the conditions underfoot rather treacherous, but spirits were good.
Feedback from everyone was extremely positive, demonstrating how much these courses are appreciated by those who take part and how they value the opportunity to learn these skills and help to keep them alive.
Dartmoor Educators’ Forum 2008
A few years ago Dartmoor National Park Authority’s Education Service consulted ‘Dartmoor’ educators (those providing outdoor education or environmental experiences on Dartmoor) and those providing accommodation for visiting school groups if they would like an annual conference and what would be useful. After the first event in 2004 there was enthusiastic endorsement for an annual event with opportunities to share experiences, learn from one another and celebrate good practice. From feedback at each of the previous events one of the highlights expressed was the opportunity to network and share experience with others.
The programme for the fifth event, held in January 2008, included a conference theme of Social inclusion, diversity and access for all. These are words that are currently in fashion and used extensively by politicians and local government. All of us are being asked to do more…but do we take the opportunity to celebrate what we already do? To help us focus our thoughts we had four inspirational case studies which stimulated considerable debate about these current issues.
- Voyager Pupil Referral Unit
Voyager is a very special Pupil Referral Unit that combines high quality and relevant classroom experience with an element of adventurous outdoor education. All aspects of the work carried out at Voyager are designed to promote and enable a reintegration package that is suitable for the individual concerned. Their aim is to successfully reintegrate pupils into mainstream schools within two terms of their arrival.
www.voyager-pru.devon.sch.uk (external link, opens new window)
- Heatree House
Heatree helps a wide range of children by supporting their physical care, education and welfare. They offer spiritual, moral and mental guidance to children, who come from a variety of schools and charities around the country. The aim is to enable them to face life with renewed courage and interest. Delegates were taken on a journey to understand the issues associated with including all sectors of society, complete with a participative activity that tested communication and teamwork skills.
www.heatree.com (web site currently under construction - external link, opens new window)
- Spirit of Adventure
Spirit of Adventure is a leading provider of adventurous activity and teambuilding courses. Established in 1993 they started delivering courses for the Prince's Trust in 1995. In addition to Prince's Trust courses, they design and deliver teambuilding and personal development courses for companies and industry.
Delegates were informed about Spirit of Adventure’s involvement with the Prince’s Trust and the way that they work with young people – with an emphasis on the participants being self-determining (rather than have the instructors determine the outcomes) right from the start.
www.spirit-of-adventure.com/index.php?TabID=3&PageID=6 (external link, oepns new window)
- Dartmoor National Park Authority
Dartmoor National Park Authority explored some of the tensions associated with social inclusion - between working with specialist groups or with trying to include everyone in every activity, the need to measure success but not label participants and the capacity to do more with one group which can sometimes mean doing less with another.
www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/learningabout.html
The forum was also an opportunity to find out more about the activities offered by the host venue, Embercombe (www.embercombe.co.uk - external link, opens new window). Delegates listened to an inspirational talk from Mac who leads the folk at Embercombe. Mac's talk took its title from indigenous America's earliest form of democratic government. It explored Embercombe's origins and mission, while also digging into how this is embodied in practice.
After lunch participants were invited to take part in ‘The Embercombe Journey - a walk into the unknown,’ during which new skills were learnt and the possibility of finding a new way in education for sustainable development was explored.
Exhibitions at the High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown 2008/09
The Wildlife of Dartmoor
8 March – 7 May 2008
An exhibition of illustrations and photographic images by naturalist John Walters and ecologist Norman Baldock. Their book The Wildlife of Dartmoor will be launched during the exhibition.
Ben Yates, Greg Ramsden, Adam Bunce
9 May – 25 June 2008
An exhibition by three young Devon artists whose work is inspired by the Dartmoor landscape. Their work was featured in the 2007 Devonartworks brochure and series of exhibitions.
Dartmoor National Park Authority Summer Exhibition
27 June – 8 October 2008
Celebrating food, farming and the landscape, Dartmoor National Park Authority’s main summer season exhibition is the result of collaboration between Dartmoor National Park Authority’s Hill Farm Project and a group of Dartmoor farmers. Learn about the farming year through interpretation and fun activities for children of all ages, supported by a programme of farm visits.
Women in Farming (Aune Head Arts)
10 October – 19 November 2008
Three pairs of women artists explored the life and work of three women hill farmers on Dartmoor. During the project the artists have recorded their experiences of life on a farm.
Perfect Dartmoor
Photographic images by Jen Bryant
21 November 2008 – 21 January 2009
Stunning images by regional photographer.
Alan Kingwell
23 January 2009 – I march 2009
An exhibition of Dartmoor landscape paintings by this popular regional artist.
Over the cattle grid - life on the high Moor
7 March 2009 – 6 May 2009
Images by Dartmoor photographer Sue Murphy.
On a bright winter day officers and trainee’s from HMS Raleigh, near Plymouth, met with Dartmoor National Park Ranger, Andrea Crisp, at RAF Harrowbeer, Yelverton, to undertake work to help preserve this historic site.
Operational between 1941 and 1949 RAF Harrowbeer played host to a variety of aircraft including Hurricanes, Spitfires, Typhoons and Bristol Blenheims. Located approximately 9 miles north of Plymouth the site of the former airfield sits just within the National Park Boundary and is now an area more associated with family picnics and grazing animals. However, a large amount of evidence still remains as to the historical past of this site and it is this that the National Park Authority, along with the RAF Harrowbeer Interest Group, and volunteers are trying to maintain.
Dartmoor National Park Authority Ranger Service has worked with HMS Raleigh on a number of conservation related tasks on Dartmoor over the years and when recently approached by them were only to pleased to help organise a joint working day at RAF Harrowbeer.
After a health and safety talk about the use of the tools, the workers soon set about clearing gorse and other vegetation from the dispersal pens. RAF Harrowbeer has 12 such pens (with 24 bays) which were constructed as substantial earth banks with small retaining walls on the inner edges in the rough shape of a letter ‘E’ (if viewed from above) and are still very much in evidence today.
The pens would offer blast protection for two fighter aircraft and their air-crew. At the intersection of the banking most pens housed a Stanton type Air-raid shelter for up to 25 persons. This was entered from each aircraft standing area by a short tunnel built into the banking. There was also an emergency exit built into the rear of the dispersal pens leading off from one of the short tunnels.
Gorse and other vegetation has grown wildly over these pens for several years and is potentially damaging. So under a beautiful blue sky, a bonfire was soon built to burn up the vast amount of vegetation being cleared by the enthusiastic group. Positive comments and encouragement was offered by local residents and regular users of the area and great community spirit was in evidence, especially with the extended use of Knightstone Tearooms (formerly the control tower) by kind permission of the owners Mr & Mrs Hayes.
By the end of the afternoon 4 bays had been cleared completely and a great day had by all those who took part.
Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund update
The last Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund panel meeting was held on the 18 October 2007. For the first time applicants to the fund were invited to attend the panel meeting and give a 5 minute presentation on their project, followed by 10 minutes of questioning from the panel.
There were 10 projects considered at the meeting, all 10 received funding. Though not all received the full amount requested; of the £181,840 requested, £111,265 was awarded. The first panel meeting in 2008 will be held on Friday the 18 April and the closing date for submissions is 14 March.
The table below shows the projects that have been funded recently.
We have had the good news that Defra are going to continue the fund for the next 3 years at £200,000 per year. There is still funding available for this financial year.
Please note the dates for the next panel meetings and the associated deadlines.
| Date of Panel Meeting | Deadline for final Applications |
| 18 April | 14 March |
| 13 June | 9 May |
| 15 August | 11 July |
| 10 October | 5 September |
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12 December
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7 November |
Projects approved from panel meeting of 27/7/07
| Project and Applicant | Total Value of Project | Amount of Grant Approved | Decision | Project ID |
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Forestry Commission: Dartmoor Rehabilitation Project Training ex offenders in forestry skills and providing a source of wood chip for the Dartmoor wood fuel hub. |
£93,032 | £18,000 | Approved in full | 272.1 |
| Devon Wildlife Trust: Dunsford Audio Nature Guide | £5,093 | £1,913 | Approved by delegated authority | 248 |
| Bridford Parish Council: Allotments | £9,670 | £2,000 | Approved by delegated authority | 329 |
Projects approved from panel meeting of 18/10/07
Project and Applicant |
Total Value of Project | Amount of Grant Approved | Decision | Project ID |
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Jackie Parsons: Earth Shelter The build of a cob animal shelter; local people invited to receive training in cob building. |
£12,280 | £4,680 | Approved in full | 192/1 |
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Dartmoor Tourist Association: Dartmoor Local Area Tourism Partnership Development of a close partnership between farming and tourism to help develop local markets for farm produce. |
£376,800 | £40,000 | Approved, though not as much as the £55,000 requested. To be paid in 2 tranches of £20,000. First instalment due January 2009, 2nd instalment due January 2010. | 304 |
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Westden: Teenage Cookery workshops Encouraging knowledge of local, seasonal produce and a passion for healthy cooking and eating. |
£6,720 | £400 | Approved by delegated authority | 343/3 |
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Embercombe: Awe & Wonder A creative journey through the seasons that takes place during one school year for primary school children. |
£47,460 | £7,360 | Approved in full | 299/1 |
| Westden: Dartmoor Climate Circle Support. Westden to provide admin support and development of projects common to the various community groups on Dartmoor that are tackling environmental issues. | £25,350 | £12,000 | Approved, though not as much as the £18,850 requested | 343/2 |
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Hennock Community Primary School: Sustainable Outdoor Classroom. Using cob and reclaimed materials to provide a stimulating and educational shelter for outdoor study. |
£35,400 | £10,000 | Approved, though not as much as the £17,500 requested | 354 |
| The Meteorology of Dartmoor through sound and film. A year long collection of meteorological occurrences on Dartmoor recorded via sound and film. | £8,250 | £1,200 | Approved, though not as much as the £4,000 requested | 361 |
| Community Power Networks: Bovey Tracey Community Power Feasibility Study. A six month study to develop and demonstrate a model for renewable "community owned" micro-grid power company networks. | £24000 | £12,000 | Approved in full | 362 |
| DNPA: Haytor Down Information Provision Project. The provision of various sustainable elements to the build of Haytor Centre and related interpretation. | £336,750 | £14,000 | Approved in full | 366 |
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RE4D: Green Light 4 Dartmoor Funding for 4 community buildings to improve energy efficiency and reduce dependency on fossil fuels. Exact details yet to be established.
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£93,600 | £9,175 | Approved, though not as much as the £47,600, requested.Funding dependant on satisfactory re-submission of application. | 370 |
| Challacombe Farm. Extra funding requested for an interpretation board. Project has previously received £6,000 funding from DSDF. | £450 | Approved: | 250 |
Projects Approved January 08
| Project and Applicant | Total Value of Project | Amount of Grant Approved | Decision | Project ID |
| NoWrapCentre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW): Greenhouse Britain: Losing Ground Gaining Wisdom. Towards costs of climate change related exhibition. | £4,600 | £1,000 | Approved by delegated authority | 183/1 |
This section is included in issues of Community News. It will be available for community groups to request help, raise awareness of successful projects and joint initiatives etc from other groups/parish councils over the moor, such as successful sources of funding, requests/offers of loans of equipment, joint purchasing to benefit from bulk buying etc. Contact Joanna Rumble, Senior Planning Officer (Community), Dartmoor National Park Authority on (01626) 832093.
This issue contains information on:
Dartmoor Community Cinema spring programme 2008
British Ecological Society – Research and Innovation Grant
Heritage Lottery Fund – Your Heritage
It’s Your Community Conservation Foundation and O2
Over 40 local farmers and landowners braved the wind and rain to attend an information day at Brimpts Farm on Dartmoor recently. The day was targeted at farmers and landowners looking to manage their woodlands for log and wood chip production. Farmers heard from wood fuel and forestry experts in the morning before taking a guided walk through the woods on the farm and being shown a wood fuel chipper in action.
Farm woodlands are often the most neglected part of the farm but can, in many cases, provide logs and woodchip that can be used to heat farm buildings and sold into local markets. The interest in wood fuel has grown massively over the last few years, partly in response to increasing concerns about climate change, not to mention the increasing cost of fossil fuels.
But the event didn’t stop at wood fuel; there was plenty of information on how to manage woodlands to benefit wildlife as well as information on grants and licensing.
Andy Bradford at Brimpts Farm is one of a growing number of people investing in wood fuel technology to help reduce heating costs. Brimpts Farm also has the added advantage of plenty of woodland on the farm and nearby, meaning that fuel is close to hand.
Andy is keen to hear from anyone in the Dartmoor area who may be interested in setting up a wood fuel co-operative. For further information contact Andy at info@brimptsfarm.co.uk or telephone 01364 631450.
The event was organised by The Silvanus Trust, Working the Woods and Forest Fuels Ltd, with funding from Natural England and the Forestry Commission under the Farm Demonstration Programme for the South West.
Dartmoor Community Cinema spring programme 2008
After a packed-out first screening, this local film club is pleased to announce the confirmed dates and films as voted for by attendees, for the rest of the season.
Sunday 24 February
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Cerificate15
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette and Steve Carell.
Saturday 29 March
Amelie (2001) Certificate 15
Guaranteed to make you smile, the charming tale of a young French girl who helps strangers find love and happiness. Audrey Tatou and Mathieu Kassovitz. In French with English subtitles.
Saturday 26 April
Whale Rider (2002) Certificate PG-13
A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfil a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognise. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton and Cliff Curtis.
Saturday 31 May
Rear Window (1954) Certificate PG
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. James Stewart and Grace Kelly. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Venue: Leusdon Memorial Hall, between Poundsgate and Ponsworthy.
Time: Doors open 7.15 pm. Film starts promptly at 8 pm. Arrive early to secure a table and avoid disappointment.
Tickets: £4.00 – some advance tickets available from Widecombe-in-the-Moor Post Office.
Snacks and hot drinks on sale. Bring your own wine, beer etc.
The Hedley Foundation’s main objective (currently about 70% of the Foundation's budget) is young people; their education, recreation, support, training, health and welfare. The Foundation will also support disabled people and the terminally ill through the provision of specialist equipment and support for carers.
Grants tend to be for an average of £3,000, and are made for specific projects only, mostly one-off, but no core revenue, salary or transport funding. The Foundation makes a limited number of recurring grants for up to three years.
Applicants must be registered charities, individuals are never considered.
To apply download an application form from www.hedleyfoundation.org.uk (external link, opens new window)
and sent by post to the address below. Applications should be accompanied by your e-mail address or a self-addressed envelope.
Trustees will meet on following dates in 2008: 26 March, 21 May, 23 July, 24 September and 26 November. Applications need to be received 3 weeks before.
Mrs Pauline Barker, Appeals Secretary, The Hedley Foundation, 9 Dowgate Hill, London EC4R 2SU
British Ecological Society – Research and Innovation Grant
Grants of up to £750 are available to help teachers develop creative approaches in communicating ecology in primary, secondary, tertiary and higher education. The aim is to promote good practice and to support ecology teaching that is both exciting and intellectually stimulating. Funding is available to encourage teachers to develop innovative ways of teaching ecology and/or to undertake research to evaluate methods of teaching ecology. This can be achieved in many different ways and can include projects based in or outside of the classroom.
Visit www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/grants/education/EEG/ (external link, opens new window)
The application deadlines for 2008 are: 30 April and 30 September.
Community Cash Awards are grants of up to £1,000 for 14-16 year olds and up to £5,000 for those aged 16-25 to set up a project that will benefit their community.
Young people just have to come up with an idea for a project that will improve life in a local community in the UK. Maybe a new basketball court, a music studio, a youth club, sex education workshops in schools, a youth advisory board, even a local magazine.
Applicants must be aged 14-16 and in school, but struggling, or aged 16-25, unemployed or working less than 16 hours a week.
Projects must:
- be run and managed by people between the ages of 14 and 25
- clearly benefit the local community
- benefit the people running the project; and
- be a new or developing project.
Visit www.princes-trust.org.uk (external link, opens new window)
A new £130 million grant scheme for local community organisations has been announced by government. Grassroots Grants will run from 2008 to 2011 to strengthen the community sector with small grants and long-term financing. It will be divided into two parts: an £80million small grants fund for community organisations; and a groundbreaking £50million endowments programme to enable local foundations to generate additional donations from the private sector on a matched basis and invest them in endowments.
The funding will be available via local grant-giving organisations which will be invited to apply to become funding partners to deliver Grassroots Grants locally. Further details about the application process for local funding partners will be available this month from the Community Development Foundation.
Visit www.cdf.org.uk (external link, opens new window)
The Wakeham Trust provide grants to help people rebuild communities, with a particular interest in neighbourhood projects, community arts projects, projects involving community service by young people or projects set up by those who are socially excluded. Support is also given to innovative projects that promote excellence in teaching.
The majority of grants are between £75 and £750.
The Trust likes to remain flexible but in the main projects tend to be something new for this particular area, are small, do not employ staff, are not well established, it has the potential to become self-supporting, is outward looking and helps a lot of people.
Applications will need to come from organisations that have a charity number or where an organisation with a charity number can accept the funds on behalf of the organisation.
The Trust prefers online applications to help keep administration costs to a minimum.
Visit www.wakehamtrust.org (external link, opens new window)
Awards for All is a lottery grants programme aimed at local communities. It awards grants of between £300 and £10,000 for projects which involve people in the local community. The application process is simple and straightforward and applications can be made all-year round. Any not-for-profit group, parish council or school can apply and you will be given a decision about whether or not you have been successful within 8 weeks.
Visit www.awardsforall.org.uk (external link, opens new window)
Heritage Lottery Fund – Your Heritage
This lottery grants programme will provide funding of between £5,000 and £50,000 for projects which conserve and enhance our diverse heritage or which look after and celebrate heritage, increase opportunities for learning about heritage or involve people in exploring local traditions and ways of life.
Applications can be made all year round by any not-for-profit organisation that has a constitution and a bank account. A decision will be given within 3 months about whether or not your application has been successful.
Visit www.hlf.org.uk (external link, opens new window)
Community and voluntary groups can apply to BT for a free multi-media ready PC and a contribution towards the first year of broadband connection. The PC must be used to extend the group’s community work through use of the internet.
Visit www.btcommunityconnections.com (external link, opens new window)
This Foundation supports charitable activities in four areas; arts and heritage, education, environment and social change. There is no maximum grant specified.
Visit www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk (external link, opens new window)
It’s Your Community Conservation Foundation and O2
This fund will provide grant of up to £1,000 for local environmental projects, organised by local groups, parish councils, youth clubs and heritage groups.
Visit www.itsyourcommunity.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
This fund will provide small grants (maximum grant £1,000) for projects and activities that lead directly to people taking part in sustained physical activity. The aim of the fund is to remove barriers which stop people from being active and it particularly supports activities where adults and children exercise together. The fund is open to charities, voluntary groups and community organisations. Schools are also eligible but only for extra-curricular activities.
Visit /www.kelloggs.co.uk/company/corporateresponsibility/activelivingfund/ (external link, opens new window)
Fifty years separate the building of the Venford and Avon reservoirs. They were ventures that changed the face of the Moor – and the fortunes of much of South Devon
20,000 concrete blocks made in situ from locally sourced granite, each weighing two tons, precisely edged into place to form a shining edifice over 100 feet high and almost 900 wide. A veritable colossus – not in the Valley of the Kings, but in the wilds of the southern Moor…
The Avon reservoir, commonly known as the Avon Dam, was the largest – ever structure to be built on the open moor. First proposed in 1948, the planning authority (Devon County Council) was left on the sidelines until a general development order was granted three years later to the newly-formed South Devon Water Board by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Having effectively been rubber stamped, the plan was formalised by the County Council in May, 1952. With the location thus decided, some three miles above South Brent, design details were left to the fledgling Dartmoor National Park Committee (then part of DCC) – itself having only recently come into being. But arguments involving the Dartmoor Preservation Association about the inundation of archaeological sites, and objections by the Plymouth Field Club to its loss of a favourite recreational area, meant that it was not until the latter part of 1954, six years after the project was first mooted, that operations finally began. After the laying of first exploratory charges, the building of the approach road and that of the site office canteen, and other buildings, the work quickly moved ahead, with an expanding labour force mostly bussed in from a large area of South Devon. At the height of the work, in September, 1956, up to 250 men were employed, earning ‘the highest wages of their lives’. But, according to the contractors, Tarmac Ltd, few stayed more than six months – the turnover being estimated at over 1000 since the work had started. By December, as the project entered its final phase, a combination of bad weather and (Suez – induced) diesel rationing, resulted in the laying off of almost 200 men. Come February, however, full working was restarted, and with the newspapers proclaiming the coming fest and visitors littering the approach road with every conceivable item from abandoned cars to bathing suits, the dam rapidly approached completion. The project would cost nearly £1,000,000 (double that originally estimated) and there had been one fatality. But the 305,000,000 gallon capacity reservoir with a projected daily yield of some 4,000,000, was to transform the water supply (and, by the same token, the quality of life) to a population of 40,000 in the Board’s constituent districts of Kingsbridge, Dartmouth, Salcombe and Totnes over an area of 240 square miles. With its white-faced spillway (now green) and 50-acre lake, the masterpiece which bestrode the valley below Smallbrook Plains had ‘greatly changed the face of Dartmoor’, but would soon (it was hoped) become as much a part of the landscape as it would the everyday lives of those whom it was created to serve.
Whereas the Avon Dam came about as the result of a high-level response to shortfalls in the water supply to a wide area of the country, Venford was primarily the brainchild of one man working in the interests of a run-of-the-mill seaside town. Languishing in the shadow its neighbour, Torquay, the single imperative for Paignton, according to its Water Engineer, Frederick Vanstone, was a plentiful supply of water from a new source – namely, the Moor, with Venford, after much time spent at the headwaters of the Erme and Avon, his chosen place. After an on-site meeting, and the councillors (PUDC) persuaded, with the purchase of the catchment area and the Assent of the Parliamentary Bill, the project was soon under way. But throughout the construction period, from November, 1900, to the banner-strewn opening seven years later, little was to prove easy. Whilst the Council’s relationship with Vanstone was always precarious, (he was once accused of cooking the books) with issues about the capacity and foundations of the dam, ever-escalating costs (from about £28,000 to almost £120,000) an outbreak of smallpox, and one death, paranoia was ever close at hand. Nevertheless, the operation drove inexorably on. With the contractors Hawking & Best’s notable finishing touch to the dam’s fascia, and Grisenthwaite’s often all-night working on the pumping station and pipeline, the project was hailed as much for its art as its enterprise. And the great day of June 26, which saw Holne schoolchildren given the day off, came as a fitting conclusion to a scale of engineering never before undertaken on the high Moor. As part of the muster, the opening ceremony, performed by the local MP, Francis Layland-Barratt, was followed by luncheon set for 150, with flags and bunting on the sides of the dam, and a message over the main entrance reading: ‘Success to Paignton Waterworks’.
150,000,000 gallons had been impounded; but, warned Vanstone, it would be a bad day if the old submerged bridge were ever seen again. Indeed, Venford was to prove insufficient… and in 1926/27, another main was laid, with the supplementary supply from Swincombe soon to follow.
Contributed by Michael French, Holne
Dartmoor is home to small traditional farms and other businesses, many of which sell their goods direct to you, the customer. So rather than joining the queue at the supermarket, buy local, support local producers and the future of Dartmoor.
As you are travelling around keep a look out for farms selling their own produce direct form the farm. Choose those shops, pubs and restaurants that offer the best of quality local produce and if in doubt don’t be afraid to ask.
Local produce markets are also great fun to go along to. They only sell produce from a defined local area and the stallholders are the farmers and producers themselves so you can easily find all about what you are buying. A number of markets take place on or around the moor.
Local Produce Markets
Bovey Tracey, town centre
Saturday morning, fortnightly
Tina Richardson: (01626) 835363
Ivybridge, town centre car park
3rd Saturday of month
Jenny Farmer (01803) 861202
Newton Abbot, town centre
Every Tuesday
Mick Ford: (01626) 215427
Tavistock Farmers' Market Bedford Square
2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month
9.00 am to 1 pm
Teign Valley Farmers’ Market, Community Hall, Christow
Every Wednesday morning
Bryony Falch: 01647 252887
Okehampton
3rd Saturday
Christine Brown: (01363) 83279
www.okehamptondevon.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Widecombe-in-the-Moor Village Market
The Church House, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, 10 am – 4 pm.
This popular Market brings together a wide variety of local producers and suppliers and is held once a month.
Everything sold at the market has a local link, with a superb selection of hand made furniture, deli goods, plants and herbs, breads and preserves, Widecombe blended leaf tea and ground coffee.
Local Producers Directory
B&M Farming, Lovaton Farm Partnership
Lovaton Farm, South Tawton, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2RA
Tel: (01647) 231649
Email: lovaton@btopenworld.com
www.traditionallyrearedmeat.co.uk/ (external link, opens new window)
Dexter beef is reared in a traditional manner on land in the countryside stewardship scheme. Home bred & fed, home produced feeds. The Gloucester old spot pigs roam freely in paddocks in the summer and straw yards in the winter to produce mouth-watering pork.
Local shops P.O stores (Spreyton), The Stores (S Zeal), Londis (Exeter rd garage Okehampton), Bridge Stores (Bow, Crediton), Spar (N Tawton). Direct to customers - delivered mail order, £10 postage, free for orders over £70.
Blackaller Honey
Rosemary Cottage, North Bovey, Devon TQ13 8RA
Tel: (01647) 440322
Email:peter@blackaller.fsbusiness.co.uk
http://www.blackaller.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Honey and Bee products
Farmers’ markets in Crediton, Bovey Tracey, Exeter, Teignmouth + retail outlets.
Bottor Rock Farm
Hennock, Newton Abbot
Tel: (01626) 834247
Bottor Rock potatoes (12.5kg or 25kg). Beef in 1/8 mixed packs ready for freezer. Lamb, half or whole, all jointed and bagged ready for freezer.
All produce collected from farm. Some delivery can be arranged. Beef and lamb £5/kg.
Bramley and Gage
4 Long Meadow, south Brent, TQ10 9YT
Tel: (01364) 73722
Email: edward@bramleyandgage.com
www.bramleyandgage.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Fruit Liqueurs, sloe and damson gins. All fruit sourced as locally as possible, made in the traditional way with no added flavouring, colouring or preservatives.
Buckfast Abbey, Buckland Abbey, Dartington Cider Press, Riverford Goes to Town, Rosemoor, Knighthayes & other shops in Dartmouth, Modbury, Salcombe and Tavistock.
Browne's Chocolates
Throwleigh, Devon, EX20 2HX
Tel: (0845) 456 0568
Email: sales@brownes.co.uk
www.brownes.co.uk/ (external link,opens new window)
Handmade chocolates.
Independent retailers throughout the region. No retail outlet here.
Buckfast Organic Bakery
Hamlyn house, Mardle Way, Buckfastleigh,
Tel: (01364) 642279
Email: sally@clivespies.co.uk
Vegetarian, organic pies and pasties. Gluten-free savoury pies. Luxury gluten-free cakes. Organic quality flapjacks.
Distribution via refrigerated courier or own refrigerated van.
Colston Farm 'Proper Pork'
Colston Road, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0LW
Tel: (01364) 643836
Traditional, slowly produced pork & ham from saddleback & Welsh white pigs, living a happy & contented life, slaughtered & butchered locally, free local delivery fresh or frozen.
Free local delivery (personally), no minimum, Buckfastleigh farmers’ market, Ilsington country store, Widecombe Post Office & store, restaurants and pubs in Buckfastleigh area.
Dartmoor Delectables
Whistle Cottage, The Old Station, Horrabridge, PL20 7RQ
Tel: (01822) 854729
Email: sue@goldingcook.com
http://www.dartmoordelectables.com (external link, opens new window)
Handmade preserves (jam, marmalade, chutneys, pickles) made in own Dartmoor kitchen. Locally sourced/grown produce used as much as possible. Reviving interest in unusual and old fashioned recipes e.g. marrow and ginger jam, highdumpsydeary jam.
Tavistock country market and Tavistock farmers’ market as part of a country market co-operative.
Dartmoor Kitchen
Little Ash Farm, Whiddon Down, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2QG
Tel: (01647) 231130
Email: info@dartmoorkitchen.com
Award winning pies, puddings and tarts using a mix of organic, local and seasonal ingredients. Pies include Devon steak and potato, roast butternut squash and tomato, game or potato, cheese and onion. The choice of puddings includes prune and almond, apple cake and fresh berry cheesecake. Tarts include smoked trout, courgette and sweet pepper, and asparagus and goats cheese.
Deliveries to pubs and specialist food shops twice a week. Direct from farm, 6 days a week. Home deliveries dependant on order/location.
Deer Force 10
c/o Mardlewood House, Higher Coombe, Scorriton, Buckfastleigh
Tel: (01364) 644420
Email: pmarding@hotmail.com
Organic Venison (soil association).
Riverfood farm shop or Rodney Cleave butchers in Ashburton.
Devonshire Farmhouse Ice Cream Ltd
Kittson View, Higher Murchington Farm, Chagford, TQ13 8HJ
Tel: (01647) 433170
Email: dfic@talk21.com
http://www.devonshirefarmhouse.com (external link, opens new window)
Bottled milk, clotted, double, single, whipping cream, luxury dairy ice cream, sorbets, and diabetic ice cream.
Retail, wholesale, home delivery (minimum order £25), mail order clotted cream.
Dunns Dairy
Beacon View Farm, Drewsteignton, Exeter EX6 6PF
Tel: (01647) 231452
Email: dunn_019@fsmail
Milk, Cream, Butter, Eggs.
On-site farm shop open 7am-5 pm Monday to Saturday. Supply various shops, hotels etc throughout Devon. Doorstep deliveries with no minimum order.
Haldon Woods Farm
Sourton Cross, Okehampton, EX20 4HX.
And Binkham, Yelverton, PL20.
Tel: (01822) 854652
Email: trishcarrington@tiscali.co.uk
Home produced and reared beef, lamb, mutton, pork. 15 varieties of sausages, bacon, gammon steaks, lamb and mint sausages and burgers. Eggs (chicken and duck, when available). Discounted barbecue, camper and freezer packs of meats. All meats sold frozen.
Collection from farm and by telephone order, free delivery within 25 miles.
Heaven Scent Herbs
Unit 9, Gidleys Meadow, Christow, Exeter, Devon, EX6 7HR
Tel: (01647) 252847
Email: anne@heavenscenthearbs.co.uk
www.heavenscentherbs.co.uk (external link,opens new window)
Handmade herb and spice mustards
Mail order service available, callers by appointment only.
Hogs Bottom Garden Delights
Unit 5a Westbridge Street, Tavistock, Devon, PL19 HDE
Tel: (01822) 613013
Email: hogsbot@aol.com
www.hogsbot.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Cordial fruit vinegars, salad dressings, marmalade/chutneys/preserves, assorted cooked pies/quiches, All made from as much local produce as possible. Direct through farmers’ markets. Wholesale to about 50 shops/farm shops/cafés etc. Supply a few local pubs. Will soon be selling online.
Little Ash Farm
Little Ash Farm, Whiddon Down, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2QG
Tel: (01647) 231130
Email: info@littleashfarm.com
www.littleashfarm.com (external link, opens new window)
Organic Eggs, Salad bags, herbs, vegetables and fruit.
Farm shop, Monday – Saturday 9 am – 5 pm
Moorland Mist
Mitchelcombe Farm, Holne, Newton Abbot, TQ13 7SP
(01364) 631528
Email: clearlydevon@hotmail.com
Dartmoor water, supplied in returnable bottles - 250, 330, 750ml & 1litre glass bottles with still or sparkling water. 1, 5, 13, 15 & 19 litre HDPE bottles, still water for use with coolers and porcelain crocks.
Home delivery, trade sales to farm shops, health shops, pubs, hotels and restaurants (minimum order 4 crates). Contract bottling for 'own label' customers
Richard and Caroline Mann
Great Dunstone, Widecombe, Newton Abbot, TQ13 7TH
Tel: (01364) 621233
Email: greatdunstone@btinternet.com
Beef is sold in mixed 1/8ths or freezer packs consisting of: 2 x 8 oz rump steaks, 2 x 2-3lb topside, 5 x 0.5 kg braising steak, 5 x 0.5 kg mince. Lamb is sold in 1/2s or whole. Beefburgers and sausages also available.
Postal orders nationwide or minimum order of £30 to be delivered within a 30mile radius of Widecombe-in-theMoor.
Sherberton Beef and Lamb
Sherberton Farm, Princetown, Yelverton, PL20 6SF
Tel: (01364) 631276
Email: wood@anton-coaker.co.uk
www.anton-coaker.co.uk (external link,opens new window)
Home reared beef and lamb supplied fresh or frozen. Beef is supplied at one price per kilo and mixed orders are supplied. The meat comes in freezer friendly packs of a sensible weight, but specific weights can be catered for. Lamb is supplied by the half, jointed. Being hill lambs, halves are not huge and thus suit families or couples.
Deliver locally (radius 30 miles) and can collect from farm. Minimum order 5 kilos of mixed cuts.
Well Hung Meat
Tordean Farm, Dean Prior, Buckfastleigh.
Tel: 0845 230 3131
Email: sales@wellhungmeat.com
www.wellhungmeat.com (external link, opens new window)
Award winning (4 soil association food awards in 4 years) beef, lamb, pork, poultry, bacon and sausages by mail order. Monthly meat boxes containing all of the above.
Farm shop, postal/internet, farmers’ markets.
Happy Hogs Ltd
Moorlands Farm Shop, Whiddon Down, Exeter, EX20 2QL
Tel: (01647) 213666
Email: sargent@tinyonline.co.uk
www.moorlandsfarmshop.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
20 types of sausage, dry cured bacon, free range pork, organic beef, lamb and pork, game in season. Moorlands Farm Shop. Exeter, Tavistock and Okehampton farmers’ markets, and via mail order and the internet, free delivery on orders over £100.
Luscombe Organic Drinks
Luscombe Farm, Colston Road, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0LP
Tel: (08451) 303036
Email: info@luscombe.co.uk
www.luscombe.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Organic fruit juices and traditional soft drinks including the gold medal award winning 'hot ginger beer'. Riverfood farm shops, Buckfastleigh and Christow farmers’ markets, local health food shops, deli's and garden centres. Mail order available.
Frenchbeer Farm Ltd
Frenchbeer Farm, Chagford, Devon, TQ13 8EX
Tel: (01647) 432427
Traditional free range or barn reared turkeys for Christmas, Aberdeen angus cross beef, reared & finished on Dartmoor, hung for flavour & succulence. Heather lamb, a true delicacy - available late summer/ autumn. Heather mutton - specially produced from our Scottish blackface flock. Farm gate sales - please phone.
Wild Beef
Hillhead Farm, Chagford, Devon, TQ13 8DY
Tel: (01647) 433433
High quality beef from native breeds of cattle. Reared and finished off unimproved grassland, they are killed locally and the meat is hung for at least 3 weeks. Available by home delivery, mail order and produce markets nationally. Mail order, home delivery - no minimum order, free delivery > £15. Crediton farmers’ markets. London markets.
Ullacombe Farm
Ullacombe Farm, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9LL
Tel: (01364) 661341
Email: ullacombefarm1@btinternet.com
Homemade bread, cakes, savouries, ready made meals & preserves made in farm kitchen. Organic veg grown in the kitchen garden and polytunnel, free range eggs, plus other local produce, Widecombe Beef, Torbryan Pork, free range Chicken. Farm shop: Mondays: closed, Tues - Fri: 9.30 am - 6 pm, sat: 9.30 am - 5 pm, sun 9.30 am - 4 pm.
Brimpts Farm/Beef Box
Brimpts Farm, Dartmeet, Dartmoor, Devon
Tel: (01364) 631 179
Email: info@brimptsfarm.co.uk
http://www.brimptsfarm.co.uk/ (external link, opens new window)
Beef direct to your door around the country, also available from farm shop, Winners of Devon Life magazine best food producers award 2005, Winners of westcountry farm diversification award 2005 at Royal Bath and West Show. Mail order - £30 minimum. Farm shop open all year - please call for details.
Tor to Tor Meat Delivery Service
Holwell Farm, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ13 7TT
Tel: (01647) 221335
Email: meat@holwelldartmoor.co.uk
www.holwelldartmoor.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Free delivery of Dartmoor’s finest fresh and frozen meat, all reared on moor farms. Pork - free range English saddleback pigs from Widecombe-in-the-Moor, whole or half pigs or choose the following: flavoured sausages, joints, bacon, hams, suckling pigs. Beef - Aberdeen angus cross galloway & south Devon and dexter, bred & fed at Widecombe. Lamb - organic from Holne. Seasonal game - from estates on Dartmoor including venison and pheasant. Fresh farm eggs. Delivers meat and eggs, no minimum order or delivery charge to residents and businesses on Dartmoor and outlying villages. Also attend monthly village market in church house at Widecombe-in-the-Moor.
RJR and SA Ashford
Bowden Farm, Buckfastleigh, Devon,
Tel; (01364) 643955
Organic Beef and Lamb produced from the farm.
Local deliveries, also chilled box scheme. Also supply some local pubs and hotels.
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