Winner of the Photo Competition in September – Photograph by Paula Kirby
Winning Entries in the Exmoor4all Photo Competition in September
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An August Sunrise at Porlock Weir
Photo by Rob Hatton
An August Sunrise at Porlock Weir
Photo by Rob Hatton
Purple Haze
Purple haze…. Exmoor in August is just spectacular!
Ask those that know Exmoor – England’s smallest National Park – to conjure up just one image of it and you would get a number of different answers. For some it is the wild ponies, others the rushing streams but mostly the answer would be the sea or the moorland. On Exmoor you are never very far from either.
At this time of year the moors are, perhaps, at their very best: awash with a purple haze of heather in bloom, speckled with the yellow flowers of furze – the local dialect word for gorse. During the cooler months, however, the heather looks very different, drab browns and greens giving no hint of the glory to come.
The heather is an important resource for animals whether it is food for the ponies, sheep or cattle that roam the open spaces or the deer. In the…
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Exmoor Ponies on Molland Common
Photo by Dave Webb
Lynmouth fete, 24 August
Date for the diary!
Beach Huts on the Brink!
Exmoor’s Archaeology Forum 27 September 2014
Celebrate the rich archaeological landscape surviving on Exmoor at the 14th Annual Archaeology Forum on Saturday 27 September 2014, the 60th anniversary year of the designation of the National Park.
A digital artist’s impression of Chapman’s Barrow, comissioned through the Heart of Exmoor Scheme. Copyright 2013 (c) Peter Lorimer
The forum will highlight recent work across the National Park including community projects such as the Longstone Landscape Project investigating moorlands above Challacombe and Parracombe. There will also be an update on the historic settlement project Dig Porlock Village.
Is White Rock Cottage more than a humble dwelling? Find out how it has been a key to researching the creation of the 19thcentury landscape in Simonsbath. New discoveries associated with the Exmoor Mires Project will be presented together recent palaeological research into the development of the mires and an assessment of the historic routeways which have carved…
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