Exmoor The Country Magazine Autumn 2015

EXMOOR THE COUNTRY MAGAZINE

www.exmoormagazine.co.uk

ISSUE No. 73 Winter 2015 ÂŁ3.20

CHRISTMAS MORNING WALK PEBBLES TAVERN exmoor FESTIVE DIARY hunters inn

memories

Culm Valley Cloth Trade Three Quantock Estates Gerald Down at Brendon Gwen Bawden on Hawkridge Revel

flora & fauna

Clumber Spaniels The Snow Bunting Windswept Plantings Lundy Seabird Project Hoar Oak Publishing Ltd

Exmoor creations

Model Boats, Wicked Wolf Gin & Felted Animals

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Cover: Exmoors by Cuy Harrop.

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Contents

Winter 2015

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NEWS

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DOWN MEMORY LANE Gerald Down

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Tony James

PROFILE Dr Eric Robinson

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LUNCH The Hunters Inn

Holly Wright

TOAST OF EXMOOR Pebbles Tavern Adrian Tierney Jones

Tony James

BLOWING IN THE WIND Jane A. Mares

GARDEN NOTES The Wind Problem!

Rosemary FitzGerald

TASTE OF EXMOOR Wicked Wolf Gin Adrian Tierney Jones

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COAST Model Boats Tony James

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IN THE STABLEYARD Hawkridge Revel 70th Anniversary: In Conversation with Gwen Bawden

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ARTS Lucy Pendrick: Feral Felt Mel Roach

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EQUINE NEWS

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LAWHORSE Agricultural Use v Equestrian

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Penny Bayer

WELLBEING High Park Music Project Elaine Pearce

BOOKS: NEWS & REVIEWS Tony James

95 GARDENS 'The place that is in between...'

Rosemary FitzGerald

Jill Headford

PAST TIMES Cullompton & Culm Valley Cloth Trade

Noel Sexton

87 HOMES

Three Quantock Estates:

Halsway, Crowcombe & Hestercombe Mary Siraut

Cindy Cowling

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PROPERTY The View from Above

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ECOLOGY Lundy Seabird Project Rebecca MacDonald

75 WALKING

A Walk For All Seasons: Exe

Valley Hills and the Grand

Western Canal Sue Viccars

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FAMILY PAGE Uncle Willow's Christmas Morning Walk Endymion Beer

FESTIVE & WINTER DIARY Compiled by Katy Charge

FINAL PAWS Clumbers Victoria Eveleigh

CROSSWORD Bryan Cath

COUNTRY MATTERS The Snow Bunting Trevor Beer

CHARITIES NDADA Sandy Francis

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