A week of music and entertainment hits the marquees and streets of Sidmouth, East Devon when the town hosts its annual folk festival.
There is a packed programme, with highlights including a concert on Saturday 31st July by Devon’s award winning folk duo, Show of Hands.
The first festival in Sidmouth was held in 1955. Since then, the [...]

Throughout July and August the Lyme Regis Town Band stage free evening concerts on the Marine Parade, Lyme Regis. The musicians put their many weeks of preparation into practice and perform their ‘Music by the Sea’ concerts every Tuesday evening.  There are additional concerts on some Sunday afternoons, starting at 2.30pm.
A highlight of this season’s [...]

Flash-opera arias, historical re-enactments, military parades and a party on the streets are all part of this year’s Exeter Summer Festival. The event has been part of Exeter’s cultural calendar for more than 30 years now.
Events begin on 25th June 2010 with a parade of schoolchildren dressed in circus outfits.
This year’s Festival presents a programme [...]

A 30,000-year-old tusk from a woolly mamouth found in a Dorset quarry is being shown with other prehistoric mammal fossils in Dorchester’s Dinosaur museum. The county is one of the few places in Britain that has preserved remains of the woolly mammoth.
Bones of a pre ice-age mammoth were found during the late 19th Century in Dewlish [...]

If you are visiting East Devon it’s well worth spending a day at Escot Park. This is a Devon estate with its roots in Norman times. It’s somewhere that can be enjoyed by all ages. The estate is located in the beautiful East Devon countryside and offers a great day out.
Visitors can solve the world [...]

A new festival in Bridport, West Dorset, is celebrating novels that have been made into films. Organisers believe the ‘From Page To Screen’ film festival is the only one in the country to look at books that have gone on to be movies. The festival runs over the Easter break and will present a fantastic [...]

Powderham Castle is located in a unique, picturesque setting beside the Exe estuary, near Exeter. Six hundred years of history are contained within the walls of one of England’s oldest family homes.
Guided tours of this magnificent Castle, one of the oldest family houses in England and home to the 18th Earl of Devon, reveal secret [...]

Jane Austen was a frequent visitor to Lyme Regis, first arriving in 1803 when she was 29. She stayed in a seafront cottage (still in existence) where she wrote Persuasion, setting part of the novel in the town. Austen fans can see and climb the steep steps, known as Granny’s Teeth, where her character Louisa [...]

Fancy a clotted cream tea, a pint of scrumpy cider or a slice of Somerset cheddar? Well why not visit the Exeter Festival of South West Food and Drink. The South West’s largest food and drink festival is held over the weekend of Friday 9th – Sunday 11th April 2010 in Northernhay Gardens and Exeter [...]

A small Dorchester restaurant has joined an elite group after being awarded a coveted Michelin Star – apparently the first Dorset establishment to do so for over 20 years. Michelin stars, which are awarded after a number of unannounced visits by reviewers, are considered to be the highest honour in the restaurant industry.
The Chef and [...]