Exmoor The Country Magazine Summer 2019

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ISSUE No. 87 Summer 2019 £3.20

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

magical landscapes

Trentishoe to Heddon’s Mouth Caring for our Beacons Lee Bay: Wild Coast Art Croyde & Georgeham Walk

people & places

Porlock’s Jack Kay Straw Bale House Exmoor Adventures Warren Farm, Watchet

food & farming

Beach Hotel Recipes Seadog Foods, Ilfracombe Jon Becklake’s Thatching Reed Middle Week: The Horse-drawn Farm HARTLAND & CLOVELLY WALLED GARDENS

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

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Published by: Hoar Oak Publishing Ltd. Exmoor Magazine, PO Box 117, Ilfracombe, Devon EX34 4AS. T. 0345 224 1203 Website: www.exmoormagazine.co.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/exmoormagazine Twitter: twitter.com/ExmoorMagazine Instagram: @exmoormagazine #exmoormagazine Subscriptions & Office: Bryan Cath E: office@exmoormagazine.co.uk T: 0345 224 1203 Editor & Designer: Naomi Marley editor@exmoormagazine.co.uk Editorial Director: Elaine Pearce hoaroak.publishing@googlemail.com Assistant Editor: Katy Charge Associate Editor: John Dunscombe Colour Management & Associate Designer: Colin Matthews Website: Mike Bishop & Naomi Marley Advertising Sales: Grant Harrison (Zara Media) T: 01392 201227; email: info@zaramedia.co.uk Printing: Warner Midlands PLC, Bourne

Contents

Summer 2019

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NEWS

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FARMING I J.M. Becklake Ltd Wheat Reed Suppliers

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TASTE Seadog Foods Mel Roach

SUMMER IN THE GARDEN

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Dan French

Jane A. Mares

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ACTIVE Exmoor Adventures is Ten

Victoria Eveleigh

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We cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage caused directly or indirectly by this publication. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher or editor.

Cover: Exmoor horn with her youngsters in June, on the lane to Culbone Church,

by Jane A. Mares.

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PROFILE Photographer Jack Kay Tony James

RECIPES The Beach Hotel, Minehead Paul Ruttledge

DOWN MEMORY LANE Pam Bosley at Warren Farm Tony James

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HERITAGE Watchet's Market House Museum is 40!

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WALKING Georgeham and Baggy Point Sue Viccars

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NATURE DIARY Trentishoe Down and The Heddon Valley

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GARDENS Hartland & Clovelly Michèle Osborne

Maurice & Joyce Chidgey

FARMING II Middle Week Reflections Stuart Harrison

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ECOLOGY Riverflies

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LANDSCAPES Caring for Our Beacons

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Michelle Werrett

Ben Bryant

ARTS Wild Coast Art Mel Roach

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Julian Gurney

GARDEN NOTES Caring for Your Soil Claire Greenslade

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Cindy Cowling

Endymion Beer

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Bryan Cath

PLANNING LAW Can We Have a Granny Annex in the Garden?

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Compiled by Katy Charge

CHILDREN'S PICTURE QUIZ Uncle Willow & Ginger Tigger in A Wild Flower Meadow

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Amy Cator, Tozers

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PROPERTY Home and Away Napoleon Wilcox,

Webbers Fine & Country

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HOMES The Straw Bale House

IN THE STABLEYARD Josh Cooksley CROSSWORD SUMMER DIARY FINAL PAWS The Moleschamber Terriers Victoria Eveleigh

Tony James

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