Exmoor - The Country Magazine Autumn 2018

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ISSUE No. 84 Autumn 2018 £3.20

FOR ALL THOSE WHO LOVE EXMOOR, NORTH DEVON & THE QUANTOCKS

Food & Farming

South Molton Wool Depot It’s Goat to be Perfect North Devon Boat Cafés Recipes from Tarr Farm Hedgerow Harvest

Quantock Hills

Quantock Lodge Garden Portrait of the Landscape Fyne Court Circular Walk Quantock Ponies

People & Places

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AUTUMN DIARY low-impact woodland management ARTS NEWS

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Liz Bradshaw: Bat Detective Pleasure Dome Theatre Company Peter Marren: The Mysterious Moth Brian Duke: Shepherd of Simonsbath Open Water Swimmer Ann Mold

50 Exmoor Magazine is independently owned and run on Exmoor by Naomi Marley, Elaine Pearce and Heather Holt.

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Cover: Heather, glorious heather on Holden Down, by John Spurr.

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Contents

Autumn 2018

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NEWS

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FARMING Woolly Yarns

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Michelle Werrett

ACTIVE EXMOOR Exmoor Open Water Swim Ann Mold

29 SEASON OF MELLOW FRUITFULNESS

Jane A. Mares 71

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EATING OUT Boat Bites: Watermouth's Storm in a Teacup & Bideford's CafĂŠ Onboard Tony James

TASTE OF EXMOOR It's Goat to be Perfect Mel Roach

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RECIPES Tarr Farm Inn Recipes by Steve Cox

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81 WOODLANDS

Low-impact Woodland Management Robin Parker

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FOOD NEWS

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ECOLOGY The Mysterious Moth Peter Marren

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LANDSCAPES The Quantock Hills

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EQUINE A Love Affair with Quantock Ponies

Peter Haggett

WALKING Goathurst & Broomfield

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GARDENS Quantock Lodge

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CHILDREN'S PAGES Uncle Willow's Canal Trip

Julian Gurney

Amy Cater, Tozers

PROPERTY Why Sell by 'Informal Tender?'

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HOMES Seated in Tradition

Napoleon Wilcox, Webbers

Paul Hackman

ARTS Pleasure Dome Theatre Company Sandy Francis

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Liz Elmont

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NATURE DIARY Things That Go Bump, Boom & Creak in the Night

PLANNING LAW Tree Preservation Orders

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Endymion Beer

CROSSWORD Bryan Cath

AUTUMN DIARY Compiled by Katy Charge

FINAL PAWS The Shepherd of Simonsbath: Brian Duke Mary Bromiley

Sue Viccars

Rosemary FitzGerald

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PROFILE Liz Bradshaw: Bat Detective Victoria Eveleigh

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