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
Barbastelle Bat
The Barbastelle Bat Barbastalla barbastellus is a nationally rare bat with a distinctive "pug-like" appearance. Exmoor's Oak woodlands hold one of the few known maternity roosts in the UK. They prefer to hunt along wooded river valleys and areas of scrub.
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
- Ascension Day Breakfast 17th May 2012
- Growing Native Trees 17th May 2012
- Natural History Walk 17th May 2012
- The West Somerset Morris Men 17th May 2012
- Porlock Open Gardens 19th May 2012
- What's on this week
- What's on this month
Places of Interest
- Webber's Post
Named after a huntsman and once a meeting point for staghounds, Webber's Post is now a popular car park and viewpoint. There are views over Horner Woods to Cloutsham and Dunkery. The National Trust has provided a wheelchair trail through self-seeded pine trees on the ridge alongside the East Water valley.
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