Widecombe History Group

Programme of Events

Hon. Secretary Anthony E Beard Phone Number 01 364 621246 7 May 2014 to 6 May 2015 [email protected] www.widecombe-in-the-moor.com/history

Programme and Outings Organiser Marcia Babington 01 364 661263 [email protected]

More details of guided walks (a £2 donation is requested) will be given at the meeting prior to each walk. In doubtful weather please go to the start point if you feel we should attempt to do the walk. Meetings to be held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7.30 pm at The Church House, Widecombe

A £2 donation (to include tea/coffee/biscuits) is requested

2014 Sept 4th Guided walk with Simon Dell around the May 7th AGM, to be followed by Lynne Pidgeon on the 6 pm places associated with Beatrice Chase in Riding for the Disabled Association Widecombe

st May 14th Car share visit to Pentillie Castle, near Saltash: Oct 1 Widecombe, Remembrance and the Great 2 pm talk, guided tour, afternoon tea War Memorials in Devon – Dr Todd Gray

June 4th Who sank King Henry VIII’s warship Mary Oct 17th Visit to Tuckers Hall, Exeter – Rose in 1545? – Dr Peter Marsden 10.30 am presentation, tour, refreshments

June 11th Car share visit to Heathercombe Gardens – Nov 5th Dartmoor’s Threatened Plants - The Rev 6.15 pm Supper and guided walk through gardens Geoffrey Fenton

rd July 2nd Rowcroft Hospice: Taking Care Further - Dec 3 The Historic Borough of Bovey Tracey, Hayley Norrish from Domesday to the present - Dr Frances Billinge July 24th Car share visit to Shilstone House, Modbury, th 1.30 pm and the Devon Rural Archive, refreshments Jan 7 New Year’s Party, 2015

Aug 6th Beatrice Chase – My Lady of the Moor: Her Feb 4th The Wildlife of Dartmoor – John Walters life in our Parish – Simon Dell th March 4 A Battle of the Giants. The Story of the Aug 23rd Car share visit to Stover House – presentation, R100 and the R101, Britain’s last great 2 pm guided walk and afternoon tea Airships – The Rev Nicholas Pearkes

st April 1 Prehistoric Dartmoor: the view from Aug 29th Peter Hirst Memorial Walk with Mike Wright Bodmin Moor – Dr Paul Rainbird and Richard Wells. Time: tba th April 29 Perambulation of the historic borough of Sept 3rd 6.30 pm Bovey Tracey, with Dr Frances Billinge Plague and Pestilence in Devon, 1338-1647 - th Jill Drysdale May 6 AGM, to be followed by a talk by John Allan on “The Roman Army in Devon”