Exmoor is home to England's last large herd of wild red deer and Dulverton is capital of the hills. As such, deer - and the killing of deer, legal or otherwise - has been the town's central theme for centuries Dulverton is the sort of place where folk come in from the hills. All around to the south, west and north are steep woods and hills. Only to the south-east do the inclines subside into the contours of a softer, more rolling nature.

attempt this in anything other than a four-wheel-drive vehicle, and avoid it altogether in winter)—heads south-west Road and river curve gently south-east as the valley widens beneath Marshclose Hill. Our own route, however, climbs steadily for about a mile back to Hawkridge. It's a proper hill. I—father, husband and earner of crusts—have been out to wild Hawkridge to breathe the pure air of the hills Circular Walk Starting Point: Hawkridge, between Dulverton and Withypool Distance: Approximately 4 miles

It is an easy, largely flat walk of around four and a half miles, taking you from the old market town be enjoyed on a stroll across the Levels are as dramatic and as beautiful as any to be found in the South And this little four-and-a-half-mile meander is as good an introduction as any when it comes to hiking Allow plenty of time rather than treating the four-and-a-half miles as a race. See some wonderful Somerset pub walks here But after a mile or two on the beautiful butterfly special

Just a mile along the B3157 you will see the National Trust car park, that seems to be there for no other However, a paved path descends a quarter of a mile through trust-owned land down to Cogden Beach. Your feet sink in the same way they would in soft sand, so that walking one mile in it requires the same My companion and I experimented with various kinds of foot-placement as we made our way the two miles Distance and going: four miles – difficult going thanks to beach gravel on way out, easy coming back.

The historic patchwork of well-watered fields which fills the sheltered south-flowing valleys tells you As we drove ever south through the undulating landscape, so we saw how the area’s agriculture had changed Ancient orchards had been supplemented by new planting, and large vineyards now covered several south-facing There’ll be wine-tastings, brewery tours and visits to flour mills, cider-suppers, afternoon teas, coastal For Charity with Jack In The Green Friday 9th 4-9pm - Sidmouth Eats Boutique Friday 9th 6-10.30pm - South

In 20 years of writing about walks here in the South West I’ve come to realise there are certain types It was a couple of years ago that local resident Jane Miller spent six months renewing the installations It creates a significant amount of electricity - it is a significant income generator for the South West continue along a path which follows what used to be a kind of branch-line… "The collateral cut went up to Mill and Wheal Friendship,  Crowndale and Wheal Creber, Saltridge Consols and Wheal Franco, On the slate, Mill

m looking back at those twenty-six years of deadlines, the million-plus words, and the thousands of miles In the 1950s and 60s nobody spoke about World War Two . It was simply “The War.” We read comics filled with daring dogfights. Somerset Coast According to the chronicles, sometime around 914 or 918 AD , a Viking fleet landed just a mile Hubba was killed, along with somewhere between 800 and 1,200 of his men .

Ciutadella, situated on the island’s western coast facing Majorca, whose mountains are plain to see from the mouth If you visit during the quieter months, you can immerse yourself in the authentic local tradition of tragic Ottoman siege of 1558, its massive single-nave vault still rises beautifully over 22 metres high, filling hyper-local, completely unique Balearic food culture where the ingredients on your plate have travelled mere miles

Thankfully, the answers are easy, delicious, and will fill your home with the warm, autumnal scent of It keeps for months in a sealed container in the fridge and is a brilliant, dense base for crumbles or Fill ice-cube trays with the concentrated puree. Freeze until solid. And how fresh are apples that have travelled thousands of miles across the globe? The Grower’s Secret: Ripeness is Everything Years ago I spoke to Duncan Small from Charlton Orchards

or alcohol free stuff, not because I am an alcoholic, but because it doesn’t often seem to have the mouthfeel He told me how the business started out in 2008 under the name Penpont Brewery, based in a local milking The Rise of Alcohol-Free Craft Beers in the South West I asked Joe to tell us about the low or alcohol another spike around Christmas. It’s part of a fast growing chain based here in the South West - The Stable has other restaurants in

But that silence wasn’t as deafening as the one that later filled the Methodist Hall when someone suggested “We’d have to kill you if we told you,” smiled a parish councillor.   between his teeth and crash them in pieces and swallow them down, so that often the blood ran out of his mouth “More beachcombing really…” “I remember we had a wreck at Sandy Mouth in 1944 called the Ebenezer,” said “Even though it’s two miles away you can hear the sea all the time up here in Kilk.

Exmoor coast above Porlock No public right of way in the world captures the imagination quite like the South manner of individuals who, in some way or another, have been entranced by all or some part of the 630-mile 'The Guildhall', just below Sugarloaf Hill and above Yenworthy Wood. With such discomfiting thoughts I dropped down over the hill into the steep coastal woods. perpendicular around here, and if you were unfortunate enough to stumble upon the Guildhall from the south