Guide

Please take care not to disturb any livestock, keep your dog under close control and fasten all gates.
Take care when walking along country roads.
Please park sensibly, use a car park if possible.
Buy locally produced goods and help to support local shops and other local services.

Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Alan Jacobs, Photographer and Mark Mirko, Graphic Designer. Thanks also to The Winkleigh Society, Winkleigh Parish Council and other local Parish Councils, The Winkleigh Footpath Group, Rights of Way Mid Devon and Parish Path Partnership of Devon County. Further thanks also to Bernard Wesley for the maps. Walks written by Lydia Wesley with help from Philippa Lausen and Janet Hobbs.

All walks can be found on OS Explorer Maps 113 and 127.

The brochure is funded by The Tarka Country Millennium Awards, which are partially funded with lottery money through the Millennium Commission.

No liabilities accepted for any inaccuracies or omissions in the brochure.
Published February 2004

TARKA HISTORY

History of Broadwoodkelly

Broadwoodkelly is mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1086 as Bradehoda. Brad means a wide wood. William de Kelly held the manor in 1242.

All Hallows Church was built around 1261. The present church is largely fifteenth century and has some splendid stained glass in the north window, dated 1523. The porch door is dated 1695 and the altar table is Jacobean.

The Village Hall was built in April 1876 by Benjamin Wood Cleave as a Church School and continued to educate the children of the village until January 1945. In 1956 an auction in Broadwoodkelly raised £300 to purchase the building. It is now used as a village hall and is the centre of all community activities in the village.

At one time there was a pub in Broadwoodkelly- the Union Inn. It was a favourite watering hole of the men who worked on Winkleigh Airfield. It is now a private house.
The Post Office and last remaining shop in the village closed in the 1990s.

History of North Tawton

The River Taw at the western approach of the town gives North Tawton its name and is Celtic for ‘silent river’
North Tawton is mentioned in the Doomsday Book in 1086, but there was probably a Saxon Church on the site of the present church of St. Peter. A market charter was first granted in 1374, which enabled the Lord of the Manor to exact tolls for all market and fair days. This charter lapsed in 1730.

North Tawton is a very important agricultural area, as it is situated on extremely fertile red soil very suitable for mixed farming.

There are a good range of shops in North Tawton including a general store, a pharmacy, a café, an hotel, garages and four pubs. The town is also home to two of the largest businesses in West Devon, Gregory’s Transport and the Cheese Factory.

There are several walks in and around North Tawton- please refer to Explorer map 113. The Post Office also stocks many leaflets of other walks in surrounding villages