Exmoor The Country Magazine Autumn 2019

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ISSUE No. 88 Autumn 2019 £3.20

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

People & Places

Artist Tess Armitage Barnstaple Ability Football Moorland Pantry, Lynton Cato Polls at Stogumber

Wild and Beautiful

Special Features

Tarr Steps Picture Quiz Stay in a Handmade Treehouse Jane Mares' Exmoor Autumn Four Seasons in the Deep Lanes

GENTLE HORSEMANSHIP AT BOSSINGTON ARTS NEWS

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North Devon Coast: Geology and Lighthouses The Dunster Path Walk with Brockwell History Exclusive: Photographer Ernest Kille's Somerset Archive

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Cover: October dawn at Prayway Head

by Rob Hatton.

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Contents

Autumn 2019

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NEWS

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TASTE Moorland Pantry

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AUTUMN OF THE UPLANDS

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Mel Roach

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RECIPES Quince Honey Farm Treats Michael Stone and Pam Shepherd

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FOOD NEWS

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DOWN MEMORY LANE Chris and Dee Binnie at Brockwell

Jane A. Mares

PROFILE Clement Ernest Kille Jeff Cox

FARMING Jonathan Moorhouse and the Cato Poll Herefords Laura Hogevold

Tony James

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WALKING Horner Wood and the Dunster Path Sue Viccars

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COAST Geology of the North Devon Coast

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NATURE DIARY Lights by the Sea

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CHILDREN'S PICTURE QUIZ Uncle Willow & Ginger Tigger go Bird Watching Endymion Beer

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LANDSCAPES Four Seasons in the Deep Lanes Rosemary FitzGerald and

Julia Amies-Green

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PLANNING LAW Planning to Work from Home?

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ARTS Tess Armitage

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Jenny Carey-Wood

Julian Gurney

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ECOLOGY Climate Change and Phenology Robin Offer

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TREETOP ESCAPES Ravendere and Pickwell Tony James

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PROPERTY Working the Dream

Bridget Froud, Seddons

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Amy Cater, Tozers

Mel Roach

WELLBEING Jolly Dollies Avril Stone

GARDEN NOTES GardeningBoxes Rosemary FitzGerald

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IN THE STABLEYARD Cathy Powell and Rod Smith: Exmoor Riding at the Owl and Hawk Centre

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SPORT Football Meets Philanthropy Avril Stone

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Bryan Cath

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Cindy Cowling

CROSSWORD AUTUMN DIARY Compiled by Katy Charge

FINAL PAWS Painting or Photo?

Mary Bromiley

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