Food Drink Devon, Devon’s leading food and drink membership organisation, is looking forward to a busy and exciting few days ahead at Devon County Show (15th - 17th May 2025) as it looks to welcome new businesses and represent its 370 members.
A delicious celebration of the county’s finest food and drink, Food Drink Devon is right at the heart of Devon County Show’s Food & Drink Pavilion. Eight of their members will join together in a designated Food Drink Devon area, as well as many others exhibiting both inside and outside the Pavilion. Food Drink Devon is also proud to be...
Devon County Show has announced the addition of an irresistible feature to its 2025 lineup—its first-ever Alpaca Café!
Located in the Alpaca Ring, this unique café experience will offer visitors a chance to socialise alongside four charming alpacas. Twice a day, at 11am and 3pm, the ring will transform into a cafe complete with patio tables and chairs, accommodating up to 24 lucky guests per session.
The stars of the show – Lakemoor Alpacas Ron, Hagrid, Sirius and Alby are friendly, inquisitive, and always ready for a snack. Guests will be invited to feed them nuts and...
The Devon County Show looks forward to celebrating 200 years of the Modern Railway with South Devon Railway at the 2025 Show in May.
A key attraction will be the magnificent 6430 steam locomotive which in its heyday was in service all over the West Country and Wales, including Plymouth and Exmouth Junction. As a result of the demise of steam engines in the 1930s, the locomotive was eventually put up for sale for scrap in 1964.
It was purchased by the newly formed Dart Valley Railway at Buckfastleigh, now known as the South Devon Railway. Here it sat for many years as a...
EACH year, the Devon County Show selects a charity to benefit from its fundraising efforts. The organisers are delighted to announce that Pete’s Dragons, a local charity with its head office located in Exmouth, has been chosen as their Charity of the Year for 2025.
Founded a decade ago by Alison Jordan following the suicide of her younger brother Pete, Pete’s Dragons is dedicated to providing timely, appropriate, and professional support to those affected by suicide. The charity has grown significantly since its humble beginnings and now boasts a team of fully trained suicide...
THE organisers of Devon County Show are thrilled to announce a new headline sponsor for their annual event - Cornish Mutual.
This South West based insurance and services provider puts farmers at the heart of all it does and has been supporting the Show for many years, including sponsorship of the main livestock arena since 2022. This year they are taking their support to the highest level by becoming headline sponsor.
Lisa Moore, Devon County Show Manager, expressed her delight in having Cornish Mutual on board. She said: “The Devon County Show is the biggest...
AGRIFEST is back, and it’s now officially the biggest and best primestock show in the south west.
On November 6th, for one day only, close to 200 animals are poised to parade through Westpoint Arena, groomed to within an inch of their lives, to share in a whopping prize fund of £5,000.
Chair of Agrifest, Deborah Custance Baker is delighted to bring this ever-popular show back for 2024. “It’s a great event for farmers, offering them the opportunity to show off their finest primestock specimens, attend workshops and seminars and generally indulge in a fun, social day out...
Drivers planning to use the M5 near Exeter are advised to plan their journeys ahead of this week’s three-day Devon County Show at the Westpoint Arena.
The show, to be held on Thursday, 16 May, Friday, 17 May and Saturday, 18 May averages an attendance of up to 100,000 people over the three days at the Clyst St Mary venue near Exeter, with increased traffic anticipated on the M5 north and south of junctions 29 and 30, the A30 east and west of Exeter and the A38 south of Exeter.
Congestion has previously occurred during the morning influx to the show, particularly the M5...
Carole Price of Clyst St Mary has given her local post box a Devon County show makeover.
Carole, who is a crafting enthusiast, just loves to decorate the village post box and has provided it with several different hats over the years.
This is the first time Carole has turned her skills to the Devon County Show. The eye-catching display includes a number of items, hand-knitted by crafty Carole, designed to capture the flavour of a traditional West County agricultural show with a chicken taking centre stage, as well as a pig, a cow and a sheep.
As part of its commitment to accessibility and inclusivity, Devon County Show is to introduce British Sign Language (BSL) to cater to the Deaf Community on Thursday 16th May - the first day of the 2024 show.
Two BSL interpreters will sign in tandem with commentaries for events across both the Main Arena and the Countryside (Phil Greed) Arena.
The signing in the main arena will take place from the dedicated disability platform. The signing in the Countryside Arena will take place to the side of the commentary box and an area will be cordoned off in front of the...
Devon County Show is delighted to announce a partnership with Iventis which takes the mapping of the showground to an entirely new, digital level.
The visual event planning technology, developed by Iventis, provides a range of tools that bring together mapping and CAD data into an easy-to-use visual format for precise, real-time event planning.
It is the functionality of layers that make up the bedrock of the new Devon County Show digital plan, enabling the team to plan out the 600 hundred stands on the 96-acre showground both quickly and efficiently.
