Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival returns to Powderham Castle with some of the country’s best plant specialists, gardening stars and plenty of delicious local food, craft, live music and fun.
Gardens come in all sizes and whether you have an acre or a window box, a bare square of earth or a shady spot, you can grow a beautiful garden. Let your creativity take root at Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival at Powderham Castle and soak up inspiration from amazing and colourful nurseries, demonstrations and gardening experts. Nowhere else in the South West can you find such diversity of...
A world famous choir from Wales will be performing in Kenton next month.
The Pelenna Valley Male Voice Choir will be raising the roof at All Saints Church on Saturday April 9 (6:30pm) to raise money for local cancer charity FORCE.
The concert is being staged in memory of John Hunt, founder and former chairman of the Kenton Friends of FORCE group.
He loved singing and had close links with the choir for many years. At his funeral, Pelenna musical director Dr Michael Thomas offered to bring the choir back to Kenton.
The 8th Kenton Village Allotments annual open day takes place on Saturday in Kenton. Meet the bees, taste table, barbeuce, children’s fun zone, platn stall, teas and caks, competition, guided tours , beer tent and lots more.
After the success of last year, Toby Buckland's Garden Festival at Powderham Castle is back and bigger than ever on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd May!
There will be explosive 'daytime fireworks' with coloured smoke and showering steamers down from the Gate House. Toby and the Countess of Devon will be cutting the ribbon.
Teign Trees will be swining from the trees at the entrance of the castle! There will also be live music from the Cataclews and much more.
Topsham Flower Club are decorating the Chapel at Powderham with incredible flower arrangements themed on the work...
Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious collision involving two buses and a motorcycle in Kenton.
The collision happened at around 7.30pm yesterday (Tuesday 3 March) on the A379 between the Powderham turning and Kenton village.
A double-decker bus and grey Yamaha motorcycle were travelling from Exeter towards Dawlish, and a single-decker bus was travelling in the opposite direction at the time of the incident.
As a result of the collision, the 49-year-old male motorcyclist, from Exeter, suffered serious arm and leg injuries which are considered life–...
It was only a few months ago that severe bad weather caused havoc in the South West. Today's heavy rain has resulted in flooding in certain areas of Devon, with the Met Office predicting more bad weather to come.
Firefighters were called to Kenton earlier today after the weather caused flooding inside a commericial property. Crews helped to remove the water to ensure it didn't come into contact with electricity.
The heavy rain fall has also resulted in travel disruption on the A381 Devon. The Western By-Pass is flooded in both directions between the Plymouth Road junction...
Residents in Kenton are being asked for their views on an on-going traffic experiment in the village.
Devon County Council has launched an online public consultation to gauge opinion on two alternative road layouts which are being trialled on the A379 through South Town at Kenton.
Following long-running concern over the narrow section of the A379 through the village, an experiment started in February to improve safety for pedestrians on the narrow pavements and also to reduce the number of buildings struck by vehicles.
Powderham Castle presents an original show called 'Millennium of Monarchs involving puppets and live action. We will tell you the exciting facts about all of England's monarchs - one thousand years of history reduced to 45 manic minutes!
Sessions at set times throughout the day. Simply pick up a session ticket on arrival. Price is included in General Admission charge to the castle and grounds.
£10.50 adult, £8.50 child, £9.50 senior, under fours free, family £32.
