LATEST Information
Wednesday October 14th
King Harold Day
Today in the village
Coffee Morning, Pickleball
If you have any news or other contributions you think the village would be interested in please let me know via email or the Contact Website button at the bottom of this page.
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Exmoor's Dark Skies Festival - its 10th anniversary celebrating Europe's first International Dark Sky Reserve - starts on Thursday and runs until the start of November.
There is a very wide range of activities, although many of the events have already sold out. Included are planetariums, saunas and pool dips, night walks, arts and crafts and a whole lot more. The full list can be found here , and the brochure here - be aware that many have already sold out so don't dawdle
All venues are reachable, and while the full program spreads all over the National Park and beyond, there are several events right on our doorstep such as:
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Oct 17th Norse Night @ Holworthy Farm , Wimbleball Lake ** FULLY BOOKED **
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Oct 24th When the Sky Falls - A human history of shooting stars, Dulverton
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Oct 24th Triscombe Farms' Celebration of the Dark Skies & All that is Exmoor, Wheddon Cross
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Oct 28th Galactic Atoms to Golden Ammonites - talk , Dulverton
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Oct 29th Pathway to the Planets, Meteors and Marshmallows , Wimbleball Lake **FULLY BOOKED**
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Oct 29th Exmoor Ponies and Wildlife at Night **FULLY BOOKED**
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Oct 30th Exmoor Ponies and Wildlife at Night
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Oct 31st Dip Dine and Divine vibes , Exford
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Oct 31st Norse Night @ Holworthy Farm, Wimbleball Lake ** FULLY BOOKED **
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The Parish Council have published the draft minutes from their September meeting.
Amongst items chewed over were:
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Updates from the previous minutes regarding Bevin's House planning, village parking, and the proposed Brigadier Snow memorial
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Highways matters
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Village defibrillator
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Phone box
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The Preparedness and the Place of Safety plan
The full draft minutes can be read here
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- This Week's Diary -
Mon 12th
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9:00am Circuit Training, Village Hall
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2:00pm Craft Club, Village Hall
Tues 13th
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11:00am Gardening Club, Village Hall
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2.30pm Bowls, Village Hall
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7:30pm Moor Movies - Tuner
Wed 14th
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10:30am Coffee Morning, Village Hall
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2:00pm Pickleball, Village Hall
Thurs 15th
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9:00am Core Strength exercises, Village Hall
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9:30am Winn Club trip to Clarks Village
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6:00pm Table Tennis, Village Hall
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6:45pm Exmoor Annual Quiz, Emmetts Grange, Simonsbath
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7:00pm ‘Woodland Gardening – The Art of Growing in Shade’, Dulverton Town Hall
Fri 16th
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4:00pm Dark Skies Festival starts
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6:00pm Exford Community Youth Club, Exford Pavilion
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7:30pm Dulverton Cinema - Four Mothers, Town Hall
Sat 17th
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11:30am Bellringing
Sun 18th
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2:00pm Singing Handel's Messiah, St Nicholas' Church, Brushford
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Sunday Motoring Section
These are this week's proposed local road closures and other significant works affecting main routes to Minehead, Tiverton, Taunton and South Molton:
This week:
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Just...
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Lanacre Bridge closed until November (at least).
And in coming weeks
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October 26th-28th B3222 Battleton-Brushford, Openreach
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October 26th-28th Stone Lane 8am-5pm, Openreach
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October 26th-30th East St, North Molton, South West Water
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Nov 2nd-6th B3222 Station Rd, Battleton, Openreach
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Nov 10th-12th Cutcombe Hill & B3224 Summerway, Overnight 7pm-6am Openreach
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Dec 1st-2nd B3222 Battleton-Brushford overnight 9pm-6am, Openreach
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Dec 7th B3222 in between Brushford and the Anchor Inn 9pm-6am, Openreach
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Dec 8th Battleton, overnight 9pm-6am, Openreach
Dunster By Traffic Light website confirms live traffic conditions coming in and out of Minehead
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A picture, courtesy of Mervyn Sellick of an unknown family, possibly his, outside the Royal Oak in 1930.
Mervyn's great grandfather was Ernest Edward Ellis, a prominent architect in Exmouth who took photographs from the late 19th century and even published a book in 1899. The photography carried on with his son Len and daughter May. The photo of The Royal Oak may have been hers.
Inscribed on the back is "Winsford Bank holiday Aug 1930. Considered the prettiest Village in England"
This and another photograph of the Packhorse bridge taken on the same day can be seen on our Winsford in the 20s and 30s page
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Started thinking about Christmas? Thursdays Winn Club trip is to Clarks Village, the Outlet Centre in Street. The bus will leave from the car park at 9:30 and will return by 5.
Cost is £15 or £12 to members. To book your seat contact Sue Hayes on 01643 851372
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The Dulverton Literary Festival runs from November 13th-16th, and its box office is now open.
Amongst the writers and speakers appearing are Michael Morpurgo, Jonathan Dimbleby, Caroline Quentin, Larry Lamb, Julia Samuel, Baroness Minette Batters, Baroness Ann Mallalieu, Patrick Gale, Rachel Hore, Mary Keen, Joe Swift, Iain Dale, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Emily Haworth-Booth, Harriet Rix, Emily Howes, Kate Lord Brown, Paul Mason, Sara Hudston, Iain MacGregor and Rosie Barnes.
Advance booking and other information can be found here
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From Teresa & Roy after the Macmillan Coffee morning
As the sun shone a slow trickle of people entered the Village Hall. By 11.00am the hall was buzzing, full of laughter and chatter.
What a day!
A big ‘thank you’ to all of the helpers, Sue, Tracey, Bev, Ellen, Martin, Orla, Sharon, Beccy, Karen, David and Ros. We could not have done it without your help.
The homemade cakes were amazing. A big ‘thank you’ to our star bakers Ellen, Ian, Annalise, Rene, Beccy, Jane, Sharon and Kathryn. What a variety! All tasted delicious (yes, we did sample everyone)
There were raffle prizes galore from wine and biscuits to kitchenware and plants. There was even a child’s fishing game which was won with delight by Ian C………….I wonder who will get it next??
Thank you so much to everyone who donated the prizes.
And a final ‘thank you’ to you all who supported us on the day or with cash donations if you couldn’t attend.
We are delighted to say £1,344.00 * was raised for Macmillan,
Teresa & Roy
*a record
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DANGER UXB!
The recent unexpected closure of Exford Road by Larcombe Foot was the result of a pointed piece of metal appearing from nowhere in the front garden of Mr & Mrs Brooks.
After discarding an early theory that it was a farm implement for knocking in posts, they decided it may well have military origins and after much research found the correct people to call were Avon and Somerset Police (Direct line 01179 989112, now added to our Emergency Services page)
Eventually, and after a restless night, what turned out to be a WW2 mortar shell was retrieved by the Royal Navy from Plymouth
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