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The Widecombe-in-the-Moor website promotes all aspects of Widecombe and Dartmoor life, past, present and future, for the use of local people, visitors, and all who are interested. Please enjoy exploring the site.
Please take your litter home! There is nothing worse than people who leave litter out on the moor for someone else to remove. If you are visiting the moor and enjoying a picnic, please take everything away with you afterwards. Recently I picked up a black plastic sack full of cans, wrappings etc. Ughh!
Widecombe is celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and is organising numerous fundraising activities to support this celebration.
If you have trouble travelling to Widecombe by public transport, a new website may help you out. Give www.journeydevon.info a try. In fact it will help you with your travel throughout Devon.
Is Widecombe a ghost town? Daniel Stern and, by now, many in the USA certainly think so. We, of course, know better.
Check out our Google Map of Widecombe Village Centre
Please Visit the History Group Publications Page to consider buying their publications, including their recent book 'History of Widecombe Fair'. This book is also available from some local shops.

This site was last updated on 8th May 2012

Recently Added Items

	View of Widecombe Church, taken on a sunny day last summer kindly sent in by Peter and Doreen Thompson. You can click on the picture for a larger view.
See more pictures in Picture of the Month.

Support the Village Market!

The next market is on Saturday

There is a wealth of information on this site covering almost all aspects of Widecombe life. Search can be used to look for items that may be of specific interest to you. Try it out.

For the current weather please click here (and then come back!!): Weather

Widecombe-in-the-Moor lies in the Widecombe Valley in beautiful Dartmoor in Devon, England. Click on the picture for a larger view.

For more details of Widecombe, click here.

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If you are thinking of staying in or around Widecombe on holiday, then you must visit the Where To Stay section for the best places to stay in and around Widecombe.

This website provides topical news of what is happening within the Community for the use of us all. If you have anything you would like mentioned then please send us an email.

We would like to express our thanks to our business and accommodation advertisers for their continuing support. If you would like to advertise on this site, please click here for more details.

Don't forget our books and links page. A link has been added to the Devon County Council Monthly Community News Round-up site. This will be updated monthly to the current month's newsletter. Take a look!

What's New

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'Picture of the Month'. Please send us your pictures with a seasonal and Widecombe theme. We will pick the best and publish them here with any comments you might like to add.	We have started a page of old photos. A postcard from Beatrice Chase has been added, courtesy of Patrick Wildgust. Take a look!
The History Group minutes March 2012 meeting, April 2012 meeting and May 2012 meeting are now available. The History Group AGM for 2012 can be found here. Click here for Robyn Brown's talk on Greenaway, Paul Rendell's talk on Industrial Dartmoor, and Yvonne Thoms's talk on A Buckingham Palace former Housemaid	Anthony (Tony) Beard writes a diary with a very much local slant on the Radio Devon website. Take a look at the latest and then browse to turn some more diary pages.
Widecombe Parish Council: 2012 Minutes Index, the February 2012 minutes, the March 2012 minutes and the April 2012 Minutes are now available	We are adding some local maps to enable you to take a virtual trip around the parish and see the sights. The first one is ready. Please have a look.
We sadly no longer publish extracts from the Parish Link that relate to Widecombe and Leusdon due to non-availability of material. We will let you know if this situation changes. The Parish Link is an invaluable local publication that enables all local people to stay in touch. It is available free to over 750 homes each month. The following old copies can still be accessed here: Click here for the March 2006 extracts. Click here for the April 2006 extracts.	Nature Notes Our Nature Notes page records local items of interest concerning wildlife, flora etc etc. Please send us any tit-bits of your own to include on the page. Have a look at : fritillary or click on the picture on the right for a larger image.

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