Bovey Tracey - Are visitors welcome or not? By Tony Allen
Sat 5 Jul 2014
WHAT DO RESIDENTS REALLY WANT FOR BOVEY? I’ve sat through the three presentations that were made by Teignbridge District Council (TDC) and the Town Council (BTTC) very recently relating to...

Margaret Dyer's head shave raises over £2000 for Rowcroft
Sat 5 Jul 2014
Hi folks Well the day of the head shave is over with, and to say I was a little jittery is putting it mildly. Joe who was having the painful experience of having his legs waxed (he is very hairy)...

Bovey Tracey Horticultural Society Summer Show - Aug 16th
Thu 5 Jun 2014
Now that summer is here, Bovey residents and many from further afield are looking forward to the Bovey Tracey Horticultural Society’s Summer Show, being held in Parke View Meadow (opposite the...

Catch an intimate Jo Harman gig before Dartmouth Music Festival
Fri 16 May 2014
Jo Harman and the boys are popping down to The Long Room in Drewsteignton on Saturday 17th May to do a little under-the-radar gig, as a warm up to playing Dartfest on Sunday 18th. If anyone wants...

Hairy challenge: Margaret Dyer to shave head in aid of Rowcroft charity
Thu 15 May 2014
Hi Folks, Scary news (well for me) I'm having my head shaved at the end of May. Why? well several reasons one in honour of all the many friends I have lost to cancer, including Nick former Editor...

Bovey Cricket Club returns to action
Thu 15 May 2014
The club was formed in 1850, and is still going strong 164 years later. The first team now play in the premier league of Devon. With 10 teams in the table that means our first team is playing at...

New leader sought for Bovey neighbourhood watch forum
Thu 15 May 2014
The Cottage columnist Cllr Tony Allen has decided to step down as the Leader of the Bovey Tracey Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) Forum, a role he’s been carrying out for over 8 years. He feels...

Moor Merriment - A Dartmoor Weekend June 13th -15th
Thu 15 May 2014
The village of Lustleigh will be hosting a weekend to celebrate the rich heritage of Dartmoor in music and dance. The event will take place in the village centre at various locations. Friday 13th...

Local Heritage Centre turns TEN!
Wed 5 Mar 2014
The brilliant Bovey Tracey Heritage Trust has reached a decade at its’ home in the Old Railway Station, when it opened for the new season on Saturday 5th April. Since opening 10 years ago it...

Moving Bovey Tracey forward...
Tue 4 Mar 2014
BOVEY TRACEY TOWN CENTRE REGENERATION PROJECT: There’s good news on this front, as the Town Council and a group of local business people have got together to get the ball rolling on this...

Patient Survey: How can Bovey & Chudleigh Practice improve service?
Tue 4 Mar 2014
We have for many years gathered feedback to ensure we continue to deliver a high quality medical service. Although there is still a high level of satisfaction in many of the scores and comments...

Bovey Pool to open on Sat April 19th
Mon 3 Mar 2014
 2013 was a great success with highest gross reciepts for years. Chairty run pool set to open on Sat 19th April 2014. Repair needed on undercover area damaged in winter storms. Big push...

Tony Allen: New food, craft and music festival being planned for Bovey
Sun 19 Jan 2014
THE NOURISH FESTIVAL 2014... Walking through the crowded Bovey Tracey town centre in fine weather on the last Saturday in November, it was plain to see everyone was enjoying themselves at the...

Police Commissioner coming to Lustleigh - have your say!
Tue 14 Jan 2014
On Friday 7th February, Tony Hogg, Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly will talk about his first year in Office. 8pm at the Lustleigh Village Hall. There...

Cycle the 'Dartmoor Way'!
Mon 6 Jan 2014
A new circular cycling route around Dartmoor National Park was launched in October last year with TV presenter, journalist, author and cyclist Robert Penn cutting the ribbon and officially declaring...

Exciting new programme of events at Riverside Mill
Mon 6 Jan 2014
The new programme of exhibitions and events at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen in Bovey Tracey has just been released and it’s a chance for everyone to join in, learn a new skill and make some...

What's on at Green Hill Arts Centre...
Mon 6 Jan 2014
Here at Green Hill in Moretonhampstead we are getting ready to open our latest exhibition; ‘The Green Hill Collection’ recognising the work of some of those who have been instrumental in...

Devon charity can save you money on your heating oil
Tue 12 Nov 2013
Homeowners and organisations that use oil to heat their properties can benefit from a local scheme created to help save them money. The Devon Oil Collective was launched in Spring 2012 by the...

The Edgemoor supports Rowcroft's 'Dine At Mine'
Tue 17 Sep 2013
This October dine at Edgemoor House with family and friends in aid of Rowcroft Hospice. The Dine at Mine Club features a number of restaurants and cafés across South Devon who will be offering...

Local Lustleigh girl Jo Harman's music career goes from strength to strength...
Thu 22 Nov 2012
...with her first European outings announced as being two 'marquee' support slots this week to a total of 10,000 capacity venues for huge concert promoters, Live Nation. More than that, Jo...

New Service for local carers
Wed 30 Nov 2011
A new Carers Support Group will soon be available in Bovey Tracey. The group will meet at the Bovey Tracey Youth Cafe in Fore Street for two hours a month starting on Thursday 12th January 2012,...

Your View: No to Sainsbury's in Bovey
Sun 27 Nov 2011
By Jackie Juno   I wrote the poem below in response to discovering that Bovey Tracey town council are spending £750 of our money on seeking legal advice to lift the covenant which...

Chiropody Clinic in Bovey Tracey Takes a Big Step Forward
Sun 13 Nov 2011
Well Healed Podiatry at The Old Bakery, Bovey Tracey is please to announce that it has been awarded Practice Accreditation by The Society of Podiatrists and Chiropodists. It joins only a handful...

NHS: Don't wait until flu is circulating protect yourself now
Mon 7 Nov 2011
The NHS in Devon is urging people in Devon who are in ‘at risk’ groups to visit their GP to get a free flu vaccination. This year pregnant women in the county are to be offered the...

'Fahrenheit and Celsius' Premiere - Bovey Tracey Players
Sun 11 Sep 2011
Bovey Tracey Town Hall from Wednesday 26th October to Saturday 29th October 2011   What would your reaction be if your friend who owned some land on the edge of Dartmoor decided...

Review: NCS triumph at the Abbey
Sun 11 Sep 2011
The New Century Singers of Bovey recently performed their series of summer concerts. In a departure from their lighter programming they undertook a concert of “serious” or more...

150 Mile Moorland Hike for Local Children Supporting Dartmoor Rescue Charity
Sun 11 Sep 2011
During the summer holidays a couple of local Dartmoor children, Bonni Shapland-Hill (age 11) and her brother Jacob (age 7) have taken on the challenge of the Two Moors Way, an epic trek across...

Latest News from BT Tourist Information
Sun 11 Sep 2011
Bovey Tracey Tourist Information and Community Centre boveytraceyinfo@gmail.com 01626 832047 Hallo to all in Bovey and the local areas. Just a short update this month as to what is going on...

Bovey Tourist Information Centre back up and running
Tue 12 Jul 2011
We are now fully up and running again after our restricted hours during the last winter period and hopefully this year we will see an increase in visitor numbers to our Town this summer. We offer...

Bovey Tracey Youth Café
Tue 12 Jul 2011
At our annual town meeting the report of the Youth Cafe focussed on the many achievements of the past year, the dedication of the Managers and their team of mature and experienced staff and the...

Ullacombe Day of Music
Mon 11 Jul 2011
16th July 2011 Day of music on the farm—Giving something back A chilled out day of music on the beautiful Dartmoor farm.  Come and enjoy a day of music on the farm. The day will...

Relaunch - Devon in Sight
Mon 11 Jul 2011
Devon In Sight (formerly known as The Devon County Association for the Blind was established as a charity in 1925 and exists to provide to visually impaired people across all areas of Devon. Its...

Review - Jo Harman and Comany, Live at Lustleigh Hall
Thu 7 Jul 2011
Jo Harman and Company's sold out performance in Lustleigh showed just why they are attracting such critical acclaim and attention as they continue to attract prestigious club and festival bookings...

Liverton Pre-school Forest School
Tue 7 Jun 2011
The children at Liverton Pre-school have been in pirate mode this term. We have a few budding Buccaneers and scallywags in the making! The children have made pirate hats, treasure maps Jolly Rogers...

Teignbridge Outreach Volunteering Opportunity
Tue 3 May 2011
An exciting opportunity for volunteers has arisen through The Teignbridge Outreach Benefits Service for Carers'. Volunteers are needed to provide a home vist to help carers complete relevant benefit...

Manaton Midsummer Festival
Tue 3 May 2011
Manaton is well worth a visit at any time but on 18th and 19th of June it welcomes visitors of all ages to participate in our second Mid Summer Festival, a week end of gentle outdoor summer...

Celebrations Planned for 100 Years of Schooling at Bovey Tracey Primary
Tue 3 May 2011
Bovey Tracey Primary School is preparing a feast of celebrations and events to commemorate its Centenary this year.  The school first opened its doors on 2nd June 1911 and since then has...

Moretonhampstead Secret Gardens
Tue 3 May 2011
Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June Now in its seventeeth year, the Moretonhampstead Secret Gardens event continues to go from strength to strength.  A number of gardens and allotments in...

Bovey Tracey Youth Café Annual Meeting
Tue 3 May 2011
Pixie Corner, Fore Street. At our annual town meeting the report of the Youth Cafe focussed on the many achievements of the past year, the dedication of the Managers and their team of mature...

Ilsington Preschool Spring News
Tue 3 May 2011
We have had a wonderful start to the New Year and Spring term. Our topic of learning has been Extreme Environments and this has provided staff and children great scope to explore the outdoor...

A Safe Future For Stone Lane Garden
Tue 3 May 2011
Just a couple of miles to the north of Chagford lies a spectacular woodland and water garden famous for National Collections of birch and alder trees, which last year was voted ‘Best Garden to...

Charity Plant Sale in aid of Freedom from Torture
Tue 3 May 2011
SATURDAY 21st MAY from 9.30 am to 2.00 pm at the Bovey Tracey Methodist Church Hall.  Coffee, tea and cake and soup lunch available. We also plan to show a video/DVD about the...

Contemporary Craft Fair 2011
Tue 3 May 2011
Mill Marsh Park / Bovey Tracey / June 10-12, 2011 This year’s Contemporary Craft Fair is brimming opportunities to meet makers with inspirational ideas. Meeting and buying directly from...

The Towersey Foundation  Charity Concert 18th June
Fri 15 Apr 2011
The Towersey Foundation is a local charity founded some 10 years ago by Ann Daymond, then a resident in Highweek. The Foundation funds Music Therapy in palliative care and has successfully...

Jo Harman and Company - Live at Lustleigh Hall, 21st May 2011
Wed 13 Apr 2011
Jo Harman’s evocative and soulful blues voice has seen her dubbed one of the most exciting singers of her generation. Having worked with Grammy winning and nominated producers, Jo is now...

Chagstock 2011 5th Anniversary
Thu 10 Mar 2011
"The Best Little Festival in The South West" Ade Edmondson Chagstock 2011 the international music and arts festival have signed up 'MAGIC NUMBERS' 'SHOW OF HANDS' and 'BELLOWHEAD' as the main...

Free Computer Course for Beginners
Thu 10 Mar 2011
A few years ago the Government launched a UK Online scheme to get as many people using the Internet as possible.  This time last year ten million people had never been online to visit a...

MED Theatre Community Play 'No Access' - performances
Thu 10 Mar 2011
Saturday 12th March, Manaton Parish Hall 7.30pm Wednesday 16th March, Scorriton Village Hall 7.30pm, Thursday 17th March, Princetown Primary School, 7.30pm Friday 18th March,...

Ilsington Pre-school Spring News
Thu 10 Mar 2011
We have had a wonderful start to the New Year and Spring term. Our topic of learning has been Extreme Environments and this has provided staff and children great scope to explore the outdoor...

Liverton Pre-school Forest School
Tue 8 Mar 2011
Our Forest School has now been running for a year. Forest School is all about providing children with the opportunity to explore and experience the natural world. Through, this hands on, experience...

KEPOW Theatre 'On the Edge' - Improvised Comedy
Mon 7 Mar 2011
WITH KEVIN TOMLINSON Presented by Villages In Action ‘Bold, brave and dynamic’, ‘compelling, profound and heart-warming,’ these are a few of the words used to describe...

Local Food Heroes Flock to Festival
Sat 5 Mar 2011
Details were announced for this year’s Moretonhampstead Festival of Food, Drink and Arts (www.moretonfestival.com), including a tasty line up of local food and drink suppliers and a special...

Cottage Competition
Wed 2 Mar 2011
The Battle of Bovey Heath was a regionally decisive battle during the English Civil war. In which year did this take place? Send your answer with a Name, Address and Contact number to the...

Devon communities to benefit from diabetes nurse service
Sun 9 Jan 2011
People in Devon with diabetes are to benefit from better care, closer to home, thanks to a new specialist diabetes community nurse service. The service will start in the Mid Devon community and...

Volunteers needed to help at the new Dartmoor Pony Visitor Centre
Sun 9 Jan 2011
Broad range of volunteering opportunities, for people of all ages, with or without pony skills. Efforts to keep healthy numbers of traditional Dartmoor ponies on the moor have taken another...

People in Teignbridge urged to choose well this winter
Sun 9 Jan 2011
NHS Devon is asking people in Teignbridge to “choose well” over the winter by using NHS services wisely. People are being urged to use the most appropriate medical service, whether...

The Cottage Magazine Celebrates it's 100th Edition
Tue 28 Sep 2010
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who have supported the Cottage Magazine over the years. We hope you're enjoying the new look magazine - we're set to continue with...

Follow @CottageMagazine on Twitter!
Thu 2 Sep 2010
We've taken our first step in to the social networking world... come join us on Twitter @CottageMagazine

The 32nd Annual Devon Costal run
Sun 11 Jul 2010
Sunday 18th July 2010 - This most popular event for all motoring enthusiasts this year reaches its 30th birthday and is expected to attract a record entry from all over the country. Centred on...

Devon a hot-spot for skin cancer
Tue 6 Jul 2010
Skin cancer rates in Devon are continuing to climb, marking the county out as a blackspot for malignant melanoma, new figures show. Health profiles released today (Tue) by the South West Public...

Bovey Climate Action Summer News
Sun 4 Jul 2010
Bovey Climate Action is made up of around 300 local people, who are so concerned about climate change that they are changing the way they live now! We don't want to use up all the energy and...

Bovey Carnival just around the corner
Sun 4 Jul 2010
Carnival week is almost with us again, a lot of planning and hard work gone into organising this years event - by a very small (but very keen!) Carnival Committee.  This years Carnival...

Devon Baroque Coming to Bovey
Mon 3 May 2010
At last Devon Baroque is coming to Bovey Tracey. Started ten years ago, Devon Baroque, directed by the charismatic and world-renowned Margaret Faultless, is the principal orchestra in the South West...

Your own website - Cottage special offer!
Mon 3 May 2010
The Cottage Magazine, in association with Gomango Limited, is offering all advertisers a substantial website design package at a fraction of the normal cost. The offer provides you with a website...

Dartmoor Showcase Day Confirmed for Wednesday May 12th
Fri 30 Apr 2010
All are welcome to The Dartmoor Partnership's 5th annual Dartmoor Showcase Day at The Two Bridges Hotel on Wednesday 12 May from 11am-3pm. The Showcase Day is an opportunity for you to...

Giant Xylophone For Nursery School
Sun 28 Feb 2010
A ray of sunshine came to Chagford Montessori Nursery School when Elizabeth-Jane Baldry, the well known local harpist, came to officially open the new outside xylophone. Children, parents and guests...

Bovey Tracey Sequence Dance Group
Sun 28 Feb 2010
We the members of the Bovey Tracey Dance Group spend our leisure time with our arms around each other - Lucky for us! We take our dancing all over the South Devon area, on short holiday breaks and...

Try Nada Yoga for Free
Sun 28 Feb 2010
On March 27th the Satyananda Yoga Dartmoor group are holding an evening of Nada Yoga. That is the Yoga of sound. There will be singing and chanting (Kirtan) led by an experienced Indian Teacher,...

Food and Drink Festival in Moretonhampstead
Sun 28 Feb 2010
Moretonhampstead will host its second Food & Drink Festival on Saturday 6th March from 9:30am - 4pm. The Festival will feature a host of producers showcasing local produce and a few from further...

Macmillan Cancer Support to benefit from Lowerdown Potterys generosity
Sun 28 Feb 2010
Jeremy Leach of Lowerdown Pottery at Bovey Tracey has madea most kind offer to Macmillan Cancer Support here in SouthDevon.  He has offered to have a "half-price sale"of all his work...

Bovey Swimming Pool to Open in April
Sun 28 Feb 2010
The Bovey Tracey Swimming Pool will open for the 2010 season on Saturday 24th April at 2.15pm. Improvements for this year include a new pool liner and refurbishment of the pool surround. Thanks go in...

Appeal: Riverside Surgery Befrienders
Sun 28 Feb 2010
Who are we? We are a group of about 35 volunteers who are car drivers. Some volunteers are retired folk others are still working. What we do We drive patients of the surgery to their appointments at...

Council Tax Rises in Chudleigh
Tue 16 Feb 2010
The Town Council has taken the decision to increase the precept to £75,000 for the year 2010/11. This equates to an £8 increase in the council tax payment made by a Band D household -...

Snow Strands Drivers on Haldon Hill
Fri 12 Feb 2010
Those of us who believed that the snow event in 2009 was a oneoff, not to be repeated for several years, were proved to be poor forecasters on 12 January 2010. Once again the snow came and stranded...

Bovey Tracey Carnival Update
Thu 3 Dec 2009
A new year, & a new start for the Carnival committee. Thanks go to Tracey for all her hard work as Chair for the last 2 years. We are now a small (but very enthusiastic!!) committee, with new...

Check Mate!
Thu 3 Dec 2009
Check Mate Do you play Chess? Have you played Chess? Would you like to play Chess? Perhaps you haven't touched a pawn in years or you have often wondered about the challenge of such an interesting...

'Cinderella' coming to Dunsford
Thu 3 Dec 2009
DUNSFORD AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETY'S 2010 PANTOMIME   Rehearsals are in full swing for The Dunsford Amateur Dramatic Society's (DADS) 2010 pantomime, "Cinderella", which will run...

Liverton Pre-school to branch out into Forest Schools
Thu 3 Dec 2009
Liverton Pre-school is expanding the range of services it can offer pre-school children by running a Forest School in the woods. The setting already runs five pre-school sessions a week and a toddler...

Ist Lustleigh Scouts
Thu 3 Dec 2009
The first meeting took place on Friday 13th November in the village hall which received mention in the Mid Devon Advertiser. We are delighted to report that our membership has now reached 28...

Chagford Montessori Gets Top Recognition
Thu 3 Dec 2009
Chagford Montessori Nursery School is delighted to announce their recent recognition by Ofsted of an "outstanding" award in all areas. Ofsted summerised by saying: "Children are cared...

Moorcar Club comes to Bovey Tracey!
Sun 18 Oct 2009
Residents of Bovey Tracey now have access to a low cost hire car 24 hours a day - and can help reduce the town's carbon footprint while they use it. Bovey Climate Action have teamed up with Dartmoor...

Nature School Expands
Mon 19 Jan 2009
Nature School Expands and Extends in The Orchard Pre-School.  Nature school has been a roaring success for The Orchard Pre-school, based in Lustleigh. The children have thrived from creating and...