Red Hat Gallery for Cornhill

Wellington has an art gallery once again. Red Hat Gallery has opened in the rebuilt Cornhill fish shop, destroyed by fire three years ago.  Proprietor Wendy Wilkins saw a gap in Wellington’s market when she was looking for a gallery site and liked “the scale of the place”, its unique centre and the presence in …

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Market plans for Old Sale Rooms

Since re-opening the The Old Sale Rooms, in Mantle Street, at Easter as a stylish cafe cum antiques and curiousities emporium Jane Osborne has hardly had a quiet moment. Within a month she plans to expand and open the vast upstairs space as an Arts & Crafts Market. “It’s a huge room with a vaulted …

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Welly cricketers county champs

Ten years since they last were Somerset county champions, Wellington Cricket Cubs 1st XI have taken the title – despite a last-breath challenge from local rivals Ashbrittle. Wellington 202-6 Middlezoy 55-6  Wellington secured the Somerset Cricket League title for 2012 when they obtained 28 points from this drawn game with Middlezoy last weekend; with the …

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Merry Harriers wins top food award

The Merry Harriers at Clayhidon has just had a huge pat on the back from the influential Good Pub Guide, who have  awarded it the title, Devon Dining Pub of 2012, beating 1700 other pubs in the county. A huge, and well-deserved, honour for Peter Gatling and his team at one of our favourite Blackdowns …

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Skylark appearing on the menu

Gill Paltridge eats out  On the evidence of the number of diners at ‘The Skylark’ on a wet Thursday evening and again on a  Friday lunchtime, this is a place lots of local people choose to eat. Its location just off the motorway, across the road from the busy Chelston Business Park, adjacent to Westpark …

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Moonstock rises to new heights

Where else but Clayhidon’s annual Moonstock Festival can you listen to great music, drink local ales and ciders straight from the cask, and enjoy a mind-blowing view across the Culm Valley to the Blackdown Hills beyond? Events kick off at 5pm on Friday, May 25, and run for three days until Sunday evening – for …

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The Old Mill B & B

Netherclay Bishops Hull, Nr Taunton Somerset TA1 5AB Tel: 01823 289732

No one rains on Milverton’s parade

Typical Bank Holiday drizzle failed to dampen the spirits of hundreds of people who packed the narrow thoroughfares of Milverton to enjoy the annual Street Fair. A rare combination of Caribbean samba music, Morris Dancers and endless plant stalls created a uniquely British atmosphere for an event that raises large sums for charity and is …

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The Old Vicarage B & B

Sarah and Graham Warner have been running a B & B from their home in this Edwardian vicarage on the western edge of Wellington for the past four years. There are three comfortable bedrooms, all ensuite, and the house is surrounded by lawns and a patio that are available for guests’ use. There’s also an extensive vegetable garden and some of the produce is used for breakfasts – Sarah’s potato-cakes are legendary in the area.

8 Exeter Road,
Rockwell Green,
Wellington, TA21 9DH

T. 018123 661376
M. 07971 243026

www.theoldvicarage-rockwellgreen.co.uk

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Mantle B & B

34 Mantle St, Wellington, TA21 8AR T. 01823 668514 E. dalsod@aol.com