Your Wildlife Sightings
14th May
Common Sandpiper Blacklands Beach
11th May
Peregrine Falcon Foreland Point
10th May
Cuckoo x3 Barle Valley Nr Cow Castle
Pied Flycatcher Wester Wood
6th May
Red Kite Countisbury.
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
Whitebeams
There are many different subspecies of Whitebeam or Sorbus tree, many of which are only found in one location. Exmoor has its own unique varieties that occur nowhere else in the world. The name Whitebeam comes from the underside of the leaf which is almost white.
Latest Planning Applications
- Exton - 6/15/12/103 Friday 18 May
- Exford - 6/13/12/103 Thursday 17 May
- Dulverton - 6/9/12/106 Friday 18 May
- Lynton and Lynmouth - 62/41/12/018 Friday 18 May
- Dulverton - 6/9/12/105 Tuesday 15 May
Upcoming Events
- Porlock Open Gardens 19th May 2012
- Weekend Warriors: National Trust Countryside Conservation Day 20th May 2012
- Art Exhibition 20th May 2012
- Porlock Open Gardens 21st May 2012
- Batty about Bats 21st May 2012
- What's on this week
- What's on this month
Places of Interest
- Allerford
Allerford is a hamlet in Selworthy parish on the National Trust's Holnicote Estate. A picturesque and much photographed fifteenth-century packhorse bridge spans Aller Brook. The old, thatched school is now the West Somerset Rural Life Museum. There is a working smithy, shop, small car park and toilets. Nearby is Piles Mill, a National Trust study centre with the mill open to the public.
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