Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink is an annual event held in the courtyard of Exeter Castle and the surrounding Northernhay Gardens, right in the centre of Exeter.
Taking place over three days, the Festival also includes two evening Festival After Dark Events featuring live music, chef demos and a great atmosphere.
Now in its 10th year, the 2012 festival attracted more than 15,000 visits, with people flocking to Exeter to indulge in top-notch South West food and drink, see national TV celebrities, to learn from the many cookery demonstrations and workshops and...
Follow the clues and find the letterboxes in the grounds of Poltimore House.
On your return to the Chapel you will receive a chocolate prize if your quest is successful!
Noon-4pm, afternoon tea will be available in the Chapel. Activity charge of £2 per participant which includes one prize. The house and grounds open - admission charges apply, dogs on leads welcome.
This is a great opportunity for all quilting enthusiasts.
The show features a large display of quilts from all over the world as well as patchwork and quilting suppliers stands. Quilting enthusiasts and personalities will be on hand to "show you how", and workshops are available, which can be booked at the show on a first come, first served basis.
There are good on-site facilities including a restaurant, disabled facilities, easy and instant access with free parking.
Opening times: 10am-4.30pm. Tickets: £6 in advance, £7 on the door, seniors citizens £5 in advance...
An official replica of the Turin Shroud will be on display at St Andrew’s Church, Blundell’s Avenue, Tiverton from Tuesday 30 April until Sunday 5 May, 2013, from 10.30am to 4.30pm daily.
The Shroud will be on loan from Pam Moon, whose sister and brother-in-law, a local Vicar, worshipped at St Andrew’s before moving to North Devon.
There are just 10 replicas of the Turin Shroud, but this is the only one in the UK that is touring round to various cathedrals and churches.
The image is amazingly true to the real Shroud, but it is essential to read about it from the...
Peter Orlando Hutchinson project annual conference in Sidmouth.
This year’s conference is in two parts. The morning provides an overview of the context in which historical landscape studies have emerged and continue to evolve; the afternoon centres on Hutchinson’s pioneering influence, his legacy and the project’s attempts to walk in his footsteps.
Salcombe Hill Walk - from the Bronze Age to 19th Century enclosure
A walk around the Salcombe Regis area, a landscape that has greatly changed since Peter Orlando Hutchinson's day as he records in detail the land being enclosed into the fields.
This walk takes in Bronze Age standing stones, first identified and mapped by Hutchinson, but also includes a lime kiln and a beautifully shaped standing stone.
Suitable for 8-80 year olds. Book by either ring the East Devon AONB office 01404 46663, or email Phil Planel, Heritage Project Officer, Phil.Planel@eastdevonaonb.org...
Step back in time at Blackbury Camp Iron Age Hillfort, and try your hand at Iron Age living.
The team from Escot Education will show you how to make pottery, make flour, cook on an open fire, turn wood, and dress like a true Iron Age villager. A fun hands-on way for the whole family to discover the world of the people who built this impressive hillfort.
10am-4pm.
Blackbury Camp Iron Age Hillfort is signposted from the B3174/A3052.
Visit the site which first inspired Peter Orlando Hutchinson to become a landscape archaeologist. High Peak today once again resembles the open hill-top Hutchinson once knew. Recent tree-felling allowed excavation (in September 2011) of what is left of this much eroded site which dates to two discrete time periods: Neolithic (prehistoric) and Dark Age (early historic).
10am0noon, suitable for 8-80 year olds. Please book by either ring the East Devon AONB office 01404 46663, or email Phil Planel, Heritage Project Officer, Phil.Planel@eastdevonaonb.org.uk
'Death, a Yew tree and a Well full of Bones...' All may feature in a morning of stories told in the Haunts Bar at the Hare and Hounds pub.
Clare Viner has been telling stories for over 10 years and has recently written a book based on folktales of the Blackdown Hills and the Quantocks. "This pub and the whole area are steeped in wonderful legends - lets sing them alive - if we dare!"
Entrance is free, but please buy a drink before you settle down to be entertained.
