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Widecombe from Widecombe Hill
Widecombe from Widecombe Hill
Late Spring Foliage and meadow
Late Spring Foliage and meadow
The Cave-Penney Memorial
The Cave-Penney Memorial
Widecombe from the East - Banner
Widecombe from the South-East
Dartmoor Pony Grazing on the Moor
Dartmoor Pony Grazing on the Moor
Widecombe Valley Looking North - DJI Camera
Widecombe Valley Looking North – DJI Camera
Hawthorn in full bloom on the Moor
Hawthorn in full bloom on the Moor
Seven Lords' Land Roundhouse
Seven Lords’ Land Roundhouse

New Website

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This new website design is quite similar to the old one but there are some important differences.

Back to Top: This is now achieved via a button that appears in the bottom right-hand corner.

Searching the site is now much easier and more comprehensive. You can use the ‘Search the Site’ box at the top of every page to search for what you want.

Parish Council Minutes and Agendas can now be found by using ‘Browse Minutes and Agendas’ from the left-hand menu (under ‘Parish Council’). As well as showing the most recent documents, this also allows you to search for what you are interest in.

The accessibility option to read the page contents out loud is now provided by the ‘Listen to this’ button on the top right-hand-side of the main text of the page.

There is also a ‘breadcrumb’ at the top of the main page content. This shows you where you are in the website page hierarchy.

The item below, which you will find on the front page, provides a random page as a suggestion of something further to explore.

  • Things New and Old Item 24: Dartmoor Ferns

    Things New and Old Item 24: Dartmoor Ferns

    This is the twenty-fourth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) DARTMOOR FERNS. THE many fern-hunters amongst our readers will thank us for reproducing the following from Cassell’s Magazine …