Your Wildlife Sightings
14th April Swallows at Winsbere Dulverton.
13th April Red deer stags being chased by Exmoor ponies on Ilkerton Ridge
13 th April Black caps and Chiff Chaff's Lynmouth
12 th April Jay, Tree creepers ,Common Buzzard at East Lyn Lynmouth
11 th April Golden Plovers at Winsbere Dulverton
9 April - Otter between Watersmeet and Hillsford Bridge
2ND APRIL Cuckoo heard in Bridgewater
29th March Peregrine Near Combe Martin Church
29th March Herd of Red Deer at Ilkerton Ridge near Barbrook
29th March Otter Near Rockford
29th March Otter East Lyn River
24TH March Ring Ouzel-Chaman Barrows
19th March Bracket Fungus East Lyn
19th March Hare Winsford Hill
8th March - Red Deer - Porlock Hill
11th March - Two Iceland Gulls Wimbleball
11th March - Great Grey Shrike Exford
9th March - Skylarks - Porlock
9th March- Tortoishell and Comma butterflies Porlock
8th March - Exmoor Pony Foal Porlock
8th March - Red deer herd Dunkery and Porlock Hill
28th Feb-Six Red Deer Summerhouse Hill
19th Feb - Rock Pippit Lynmouth
14th Feb Shag Lynmouth
29th December
Great Northern Diver Porlock Weir Harbour
20th October
Hen Harrier Cloutsham Gate
19th October
Heron East Lyn
Waxwing Wistlandpound
Woodcock Winsford Hill
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Welcome to Exmoor National Park
Situated in the south west of Britain, Exmoor National Park contains an amazing variety of landscapes within its 267 square miles. A unique landscape of moorland, woodland, valleys and farmland, shaped by people and nature over thousands of years. Where high cliffs plunge into the Bristol Channel, and cosy pubs and tearooms offer delicious local produce.
Exmoor’s Biodiversity
Lesser Horseshoe Bat
There are good numbers of the plum-sized lesser horseshoe Rhinolophus hipposideros bat on Exmoor. During the winter, lesser horseshoes will use caves, mines, tunnels and cellars as hibernation sites, but winter hibernation sites on Exmoor are currently largely unknown. More on this species from The Wildlife Trusts.
Latest Planning Applications
- Old Cleeve - HRN 14/02 Thursday 24 April
- Dulverton - 6/9/14/112 Tuesday 22 April
- North Molton - 62/49/14/002 Thursday 24 April
- Luxborough - 6/20/14/103 Tuesday 22 April
- Brendon and Countisbury - 62/11/14/005LB Tuesday 22 April
Upcoming Events
- Dulverton Art Group Spring Exhibition and Sale of Work 13th Apr 2014
- Spring Time Walking Holiday 25th Apr 2014
- Your Exmoor @ The Pavilion 25th Apr 2014
- Horner's Ancient Woodlands in the Spring 26th Apr 2014
- Ralegh's Cross Long Walk 27th Apr 2014
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Places of Interest
- Dunkery Hill
This large hill forms the highest part of Exmoor's central ridge. It has a chain of summits capped with Bronze Age barrows, at Rowbarrows, Kit Barrows, Robin How and Dunkery Beacon, Exmoor's highest point at 1,705ft (519m). There are easy walks to the summit from informal car parks at Dunkery Gate and Rex Stile Head. The Beacon was the site of a former fire beacon and there are extensive all-round views on clear days
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