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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
DIARY
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64 Exmoor Magazine is independently owned and run on Exmoor by Naomi Marley, Elaine Pearce and Heather Holt. We are not part of a chain and we are stocked in local shops across Exmoor, the Quantocks and North Devon, along with Co-ops, Waitrose and M&S. The magazine is also available direct. To subscribe please call 0345 224 1203 or go to www.exmoormagazine.co.uk. 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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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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