Saturday, 8 July 2017

A Trip to North Devon

We have just come back from a four day stay in North Devon where we stayed in a little holiday cabin in a village called Berrynarbor quite close to the town of Combe Martin.  It is very hilly in that part of the world and is full of narrow lanes and steep hills.  Our cabin had great views to the east across to Exmoor.  Combe Martin is basically an overgrown village which has prospered from the Holiday Trade with narrow streets.
 Grattons Cedar Lodges - entrance
 The cabin
 The view from the verandah
 Combe Martin - the beach
Combe Martin - the main street

Heddon Valley is a National trust property on the coast on Exmoor between Combe Martin and the towns of Lynmouth and Lynton.  There is a hotel and a National Trust visitor centre from where walks can be taken down the valley to a small beach at the mouth of the Heddon River.

It was disappointing to me that there was not much information at the visitor centre in regard to walks available in the area.
 The view across the valley as the road dropped down
 The Hunters Inn
A traditional phone box and post box
 A bridge on the way to the walking track

 A dry stone wall along the track

 Crossing the South West Coast Path

 The River
The mouth of the river.  The structure in the centre of the photo is an old lime kiln which illustrates that once there was industrial activities probably in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Just outside Torrington, the Royal Horticultural Society has established wonderful garden, Rosemoor, which I visited for the first time on our way up to Berrynarbor

















The concept of a farm shop where the farmer sells his produce directly to the public seems to have taken root in the west country of England.  Generally speaking prices are higher, but the produce is generally of a higher standard.  We visited two farm shops in Devon.  The first was the Lifton Farm Shop which is not far from the Cornish town of Launceston, but just over the border in Devon.  The second Langs Farm Shop was buried in the deep in the leafy lanes of North Devon not far from a locality called Bocombe.  This was a much smaller operation  and appeared to be a family business attached to a farm.  It was there that we were welcomed by a pig named Wallace who stared at us over the fence of his sty!
 The Lifton Farm Shop
 Inside The Shop
Langs Farm Shop near Bocombe
Wallace the Pig after he lost interest in us.


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  1. Eve9 July 2017 at 11:10

    Looks like you were lucky with the weather, nice photos. Every Sunday morning a gardening radio programme is broadcast by the BBC that comes from the Rosemoor potting shed. Is Wallace a Gloucester Old Spot rare breed? Looks like it to me in which case that explains his rapid loss of interest. The breed is well known for being docile and laid back! Did you sample any from the farm shop?

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