Transition Exmouth's Mission:
To strengthen the community's responce to Climate Change, inequality and shrinking supplies of resources, including energy, water and land, by building long term town resilience, preserving biodiversity and reducing carbon emissions.
Our Exmouth Our Planet
http://www.transitionexmouth.uk/index.htm
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The Avocet Line is a busy, thriving and much-loved railway that runs the 9.5 miles along the eastern side of Devon’s Exe Estuary from the city of Exeter to the seaside resort of Exmouth. It’s scenic, but also a vital resource for daily travel to work, school and college and shopping. This website, edited and managed by the line’s rail users group (ALRUG), aims to tell you about many aspects of the line’s past, present and future. For more information about our 5 year vision for the line please read our manifesto, which was launched at the AGM in October 2015.
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Feniton (Finetone) is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, although there is no mention of Saxon church. The oldest surviving part of the church is a small part of the masonry in the north wall. There is also evidence of the existence of a Norman church here from the list of Rectors with Norman names.
The Church of St Andrew, Feniton, the majority of that visible today being 15th century, is built of at least six types of stone and was originally probably plastered and lime washed. There have been three interior restorations in relatively recent times. The first was in 1836, followed by a major one in 1877. The latest interior work was in 2010, following a flood in 2008.
https://www.efpchurch.org.uk/index.php/visit-us/feniton
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/8798/
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The parish Church of St Andrews is a Grade 1 listed building consecrated in 1259 and is situated in a conservation area. The south aisle and tower are 15* Century. The church holds approximately 200. There is some good stained glass and a fine organ which has been the star of a number of fund raising concerts. There is a monument and connection to Augustus Montague Toplady. It is a versatile building in a good state of repair and much visited. The Tower Room – the result of fund raising by the congregation – is useful for small meetings and has washing and heating facilities and the Lady Chapel can also be used as a small meeting/worship area. The church is open every day and a small army of people, many not churchgoers themselves, attend to the myriad of functions that help keep the building in good order and accessible to all. These include a rota for opening and locking the church each day, flower arrangers and church cleaners. Although also benefiting from voluntary work, the regular maintenance and grass cutting of the churchyard is by contract.
The electoral role is currently 26. Congregations are mainly elderly with an average attendance of 17. The schedule of services is varied; Holy Communion on the first (CW) and third (CW) Sundays of the month and lay led services of Morning Praise and All Age Worship on the second and fourth Sundays respectively. On fifth Sundays, the 5 Parishes of the Mission Community come together for a joint service held at the member Parish Churches in rotation.
https://www.dunkeswell.org.uk/
https://www.dunkeswell.org.uk/st-andrews-church-broadhembury/
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/8795/
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The Branscombe Project began more than twenty years ago. A group of people, some of whom had lived all their lives in Branscombe, others relative newcomers, decided they wanted to find out more about their village and the wider landscape.
The time-span is anywhere from prehistoric times to the present, and the idea is to explore changing landscapes, changing lives, historical materials, and living memories.
We have taped over a hundred interviews, dug in the archives and in the ground, and walked the landscape. People have lent us photographs, documents, postcards and objects.
http://www.branscombeproject.org.uk/
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Axminster Historical Society (AHS) was founded in 1989 to act as a focus for the study and exploration of local history. It organises talks on a variety of historical subjects of relevance to the local area for its members and guests. These are held in The Bradshaw Meeting Room at The Axminster Heritage Centre.
Although AHS operates independently from Axminster Heritage, the two organisations are closely associated. They share a common goal of researching aspects of local history, particularly those relating to Axminster and the surrounding areas. They also both aim to promote and encourage the widest understanding of, and enthusiasm for, the local heritage.
https://axminsterheritage.org/axminster-historical-society/
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Sidmouth Repair Café happens on the last Saturday of every month (except August & December), from 10am to 1pm at Sidmouth Youth Centre in Manstone Lane.
Repair Cafes are free community meeting places and they’re all about repairing things together.
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It’s about communities exploring new ways of living by encouraging local resourcefullnesss, celebrating diversity, fostering self empowerment, inspiring change, and ‘thinking outside the box’.
It’s about each individual community coming together to decide what is most appropriate for its own area, uncovering the vast reservoir of local talent, skill and creativity within its community, and then exploring ways of creating simple, elegant solutions that allow us to live in harmony with the natural rhythms of the earth.
All the current members of Blackdown Hills Transition Group live and work in the Blackdown Hills and are committed to working towards a community based response to the challenges posed by oil depletion, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels and Climate Change.
Unlike Transition Towns (Stroud and Totnes) the group is unable to focus on a definable town as the Hills are made up of many villages with loyal communities. Consequently the group has traditionally seen its role as being a hub for information and support to local communities to help them consider how to be increasingly self-sustaining as is practical in our modern age.
http://blackdownhillstransition.net/
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Wild Exmouth is an exciting project that is enhancing the environment of the town, engaging residents with green spaces and improving access to nature. Look out for our community events, volunteer days, nature campaigns and improved access information.
https://eastdevon.gov.uk/countryside/wild-exmouth/
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We are working with Anne-Marie Culhane who is our artist in residence to research and investigate new projects that engage us all with the wilder side of Exmouth. Anne-Marie works with people and places to create new spaces for people to come together in the land and devises events which combine the arts, learning, sharing and celebrating.
She has been working with communities, local groups and individuals to create a vision for future trails and events in Exmouth.
Anne-Marie has started to plant over 15 fruit trees with people in North West Exmouth as part of our Constellation Orchard Project. This will create additional tree habitat to link with the Orchard Trail that is beginning to root in Exmouth!
During February 2020 we established three new orchards:
1. With the National Trust at Lower Halsdon Farm. Top of cycleway near Exeter Road. Pear, Apple, Quince and Cherry. 20 Trees.
2. Point in View Chapel, off Summer Lane. Apple, Pear, Cherry and Apricot. 20 Trees.
3. Carter Avenue Park. Apple, Pear and Cherry. 15 Trees.
Next winter we will be identifying new areas for the second phase to continue the orchard ribbon across the town.
https://new.eastdevon.gov.uk/countryside/wild-exmouth/tree-and-orchard-trail/
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