April 2021 Spring Update
April 2021 update…”And the Spring comes slowly up this way” bringing with it...
Leucistic blackbird, Railway Walk, Andrew Stutheridge 26 Feb 2021
Photo of white blackbird taken along Railway Walk by Andy Stuthridge (Aleverlake@aol.com)...
Update for 2021
Whilst the wilful arboricide along WML continues seemingly unchecked and unreported by those...
Links
https://artuk.org/discover/artists/weatherley-dudley-graham-19122004
Check out this link to some wonderful paintings by a local (now deceased) artist
Check out this link to MDDC planning department
https://new.middevon.gov.uk/media/114719/28-07-15.pdf
Environment Agency
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Research/120501_DFR_2010-11_Final_v3.pdf
Treasuretrails
Grand Western Canal The Grand Western Canal from Tiverton in mid-Devon to Lowdwells near the Somerset border, is the remains of an ambitious scheme to link the English and Bristol Channels. Easily accessible and signposted from the M5 and A361, it is in complete contrast to the hustle and bustle of urban life.
Plantlife
Find out what's happening with wilf flowers and plants near you
Hands off Our Land Campaign - Daily Telegraph
The Telegraph is campaigning against radical Government reforms to planning laws which opponents say pose the greatest threat to the countryside since the Second World War. Read about the controversy in detail and join in the debate here.
National Trust
Protects and opens to the public many historic houses and gardens, as well as industrial monuments and mills. They also look after countryside sites and ...
Sites of Special Scientific Interest
SSSIs are the country's very best wildlife and geological sites. They include some of the most spectacular and beautiful habitats; wetlands teeming with wading birds, winding chalk rivers, flower-rich meadows, windswept shingle beaches and remote upland peat bogs.
Devon Wildlife Trust
Devon Wildlife Trust is a registered charity working to make Devon a Living Landscape in which wildlife on land and in the sea is varied, plentiful and widespread. We work towards this by securing the future of key wildlife sites, promoting the sustainable use of Devon's natural resources and increasing support for wildlife in the County.
CPRE
We campaign for a beautiful and living countryside. We work to influence how we plan our towns and cities to make them better places to live and work, to ensure the countryside is protected for all to enjoy for now and future generations.
Tiverton Canal Park
Welcome to Tiverton Canal Co., home to the last horse-drawn barge in the West Country Located in Mid Devon on the banks of the Grand Western Canal, the Tiverton Canal Co., is a unique tourist attraction and offers an enjoyable family day out. There are plenty of fun things to do for all the family with boat hire - self drive boats, rowing boats and Canadian canoes, or a boat trip on the all weather barge “Tivertonian”. The horse drawn barge is available for day or evening private charter. Also at Tiverton Wharf you can find a canal gifts shop with a range of quality country gifts relating to canals, shire horses, waterside wildlife and everything bargee!
Tiverton Museum
Explore the museum’s large, outstanding collections and trace the fascinating history of Mid Devon. The displays include the ‘Tivvy Bumper’ GWR steam engine, local industries (particularly lace making), farm waggons and the history of agriculture, and the every day home life of Mid Devon folk
Tiverton Archaeological Group (TAG)
We are a small but well-established amateur Archaeology group operating in the Tiverton area of Devon. We might be small…but we are very active and have members ranging from professional local Archaeologists to keen armchair enthusiasts. We are always open to new members. Everyone who joins our group is welcome to do as little or as much as they want. Some just enjoy coming to listen to our monthly talks, others also undertake fieldwork and excavation and/or join the club committee. You definitely don’t need to be super fit to join our group!
Tiverton Civic Society
Our society dates back to 1968, when many local citizens became very concerned over the need to protect the local environment, and over the adverse effect of some planning decisions on the town.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
The need for an effective bird conservation organisation has never been greater. Climate change, agricultural intensification, expansion of urban areas and transport infrastructure, and over-exploitation of our seas all pose major threats to birds.
Sustrans
Sustrans provides creative, innovative and practical solutions to the transport challenges affecting us all. By working with communities, local authorities and many other organisations, we create change by putting people at the heart of activities, enabling many more people to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. The old railway walk is a Sustrans route.
Blundells School Tiverton Devon
Peter Blundell, one of the wealthiest merchants of Elizabethan England, died in 1601, just before the great Queen, leaving money and lands to found a School in his home town to maintain sound learning and true religion. No expense was to be spared in its construction. Generous lands were provided in Tiverton and South Devon for its maintenance and Blundell’s executors established links between the School and Balliol College, Oxford and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, which survive to this day. Blundell’s was to be a School much larger and grander than any other in the West Country. Indeed, in the 1670s £600 was given to Balliol to found more scholarships, yet the running surplus in the Feoffees’ (Trustees) accounts was still over £500. From the beginning, under its first Headmasters the School flourished, producing clergy and gentry who took the lead in the Civil War and the Glorious Rebellion in preserving the Protestant Religion and the liberties of the subjects, objects so dear to the heart of the founder. In an early Eighteenth Century travel book the School was justly called ‘The Greatest Glory of the Town’.
Devon County Council
The home of Devon County Council
Neighbourhood Watch
The only official national Neighbourhood Watch and Home Watch website supported by the Home Office and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO ).
