LATEST Information
Saturday February 21st
Care Day​
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This weekend in the Village
Saturday: Bellringing, Sunday: Big Breakfast
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Expect to see more than 100 unusual cars around Exford on Saturday, as the Vintage Sports-Car Club are holding their Exmoor Trial. Although there are no official spectator stands - much of the course is on private land - the cars will be setting off from The Crown from 8:30 and returning around 5pm.
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The Crown will be serving takeaway breakfast baps and tea and coffee from 7.30am and the bar will be open from 12 pm everyone is invited to "join us watching the (muddy) cars back from their endeavours!"
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The agenda for Monday's Parish Council meeting has been published.
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Amongst items to be discussed are:
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Planning applications for Great Nurcott and Bridge cottage
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Car park
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Highways, including Halse Lane
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George Joyce Trust new trustee
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Village Green
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The full agenda can be seen here
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The Royal Oak is back open again after its winter break. Current hours are evenings 7 days a week, and Friday-Sunday lunchtimes
Withypool Tea Rooms have also reopened, earlier than planned. They are open 6 days a week (not Wednesdays), 10-4
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Ansty Young Farmers have announced that they raised a very impressive £2,818.52 for Devon Air Ambulance and Exmoor Search & Rescue Team from their Christmas Tractor run - a drone view of their passage through Winsford can be seen here on our Birds Eye Views page
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​​​- This Week's Diary​ -​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Mon 16th​​
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9:00am Circuit Training, Village Hall
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Tues 17th​​​​​​​​​​
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2.30pm Bowls, Village Hall​​
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Wed 18th​​​​​​​​
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10:30am Coffee Morning, Village Hall
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2:00pm Pickleball, Village Hall
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Thurs 19th​​​​​
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9:00am Core Strength exercises, Village Hall
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6:00pm Table Tennis , Village Hall​​​​
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6.00pm Benefice Choir practise, St Mary Magdalene's
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Fri 20th
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7:30pm Dulverton Cinema - LEE, Town Hall
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Sat 21st
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11:30am Bellringing
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4:00pm Six Nations Rugby, Dulverton Town Hall
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Sun 22nd​​​
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9:00am Pre-Lambing Breakfast, Village Hall
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​Sunday Motoring Section
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This week: The usual long-termers at Cutcombe, Dunster and Brushford
These are this week's proposed local road closures and other significant works affecting main routes to Minehead, Tiverton, Taunton and South Molton:
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Until end of April. Traffic lights onto the A39 from Dunster. Extended roadworks with lengthy delays
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Until the end of the month, Cutcombe Hill, closures overnight 7pm-7am, traffic lights at other times, structural earthworks
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In coming weeks:
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March 2nd-13th, Withypool Cross to New Bridge drainage works
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March 17th , A396 Timberscombe overnight 7:00pm-7:00am, Wessex Water
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March 18th-22nd, A396 south of Dulverton turn, overnight, 7:00pm-5:00am, surface dressing
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March 19th-28th B3224 various spots between Summerway and Beluah Chapel, overnight 7:00pm-5:00am, surface dressing
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March 23rd-24th, Dunkery Rd & Exford Rd, Wheddon Cross, 9:30am-3:30pm, Openreach
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March 31st-April 2nd (One day), Quarme Lane, 7am-7pm, surface dressing
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April 24th-28th Stagshead Lane, 7am-7pmm surface dressing
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Avon & Somerset police publish a weekly list of where their traffic enforcement cameras will be. It can be viewed here
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Many of you will know Jo Lawrence who lost her fingers and lower legs to sepsis a couple of years ago, and has been successfully fighting hard to get her life back on track.
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A friend of Jo's has started a crowdfunding page to raise funds that would allow Jo to buy a special pair of blades which would enable her to return to her first love of running.
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If you are interested in finding out more, the link to the Just Giving page is here
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The Valentines Bingo raised a whopping £920 for the Exmoor Young Farmers. Sue Hayes would like to thank all who contributed to a very successful evening.
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The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed a marked improvement in the quality of this website over the past few weeks. For that we have to thank David Luscott who has been skilfully manning events here at WVI Towers while management have been off blowing the pension fund.
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The village chess competition is well underway after the Christmas break.
The points and positions after the first two games are:
Ian 3, Nigel 3, Paul 3, Steve 2
With a 3 way tie for the lead, the February results will be all important.
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Snowdrop Valley is open through to February 22nd. Found on Exmoor near Wheddon Cross, details can be found here
Just type in 'Snowdrop Valley 2026' in the search bar.​
Or you can find more detailed information on the link below:
https://www.wheddoncross.org.uk/snowdrop-valley
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Photos of events that have appeared on this page, and many more, can be found on the latest Village Events page
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