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
Barn Owl
The Barn Owl Tyto alba is one of our best loved native birds, and can be seen on Exmoor hunting its prey of voles and other small mammals over meadows and rough pasture. it needs both good hunting grounds and suitable nest sites, such as old farm buildings to thrive.
Latest Planning Applications
- Timberscombe - 6/34/12/107 Tuesday 15 May
- Dulverton - 6/9/12/105 Tuesday 15 May
- Dunster - 6/10/12/105LB Friday 11 May
- Withypool - 6/42/12/103 Wednesday 9 May
- Timberscombe - 6/34/12/105 Wednesday 9 May
Upcoming Events
- Nettlecombe Court 16th May 2012
- Ascension Day Breakfast 17th May 2012
- Natural History Walk 17th May 2012
- Growing Native Trees 17th May 2012
- The West Somerset Morris Men 17th May 2012
- What's on this week
- What's on this month
Places of Interest
- Selworthy
Selworthy is a village famed for its thatched cottages, mostly in National Trust ownership but privately tenanted. There are miles of walks on the wooded hillside behind, with superb views across the Vale of Porlock and along the coast from Selworthy Beacon.
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