[caption id="attachment_206" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Exmouth"][/caption] Welcome to Exmouth in Devon. As well as being a very popular UK tourist destination, Exmouth has lots of things to see and do. Exmouth is known nationally as a regional centre for water sports activities - especially Sailing & Windsurfing. It is popular with ramblers as there are many beautiful walks. Also, it has SSSI status (Site of Special Scientific Interest), Bird Watchers often travel along way to see the rare birds at Exmouth. Exmouth occupies a sheltered position on the eastern side of the Exe. Until the eighteenth century it was a small fishing village like ...
[caption id="attachment_359" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Exmouth & Lympstone Hospiscare"][/caption] Exmouth & Lympstone Hospiscare is an independent charity providing care in the Exmouth and Lympstone area for people with a life threatening illness. Our services are provided free of charge, with the support of the local community. Our Clinical Nurse Specialists work out of our locally based Centre in Highview Gardens, Exmouth, with the primary aim to help patients remain in their own home, and support for the families. They also give expert advice and liaise with other agencies. In the last year we have added a new role to the team - Assistant Practioner - ...
[caption id="attachment_326" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Exmouth Blitz Tours"][/caption] Arthur Cook will once again be guiding tourists and local residents this year on his war walks and talks this year as they proved so popular last year. The talks will be running from Wednesday 25th of May to Sunday 2nd of October. This year they will be on Wednesday’s and Sunday’s, leaving from the Imperial Hotel at 11.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. on fine days only. The walks have also been included as part of the Exmouth Festival programme this year. Arthur put these talks together, to compliment his book Exmouth at War which ...
[caption id="attachment_322" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Plant Heritage"][/caption] Several plants commemorate the town of Exmouth in Devon including Campanula persicifolia 'Pride of Exmouth', Dianthus 'Exmouth Gem', Fuchsia ' Beauty of Exmouth', Chrysanthemum ' Pride of Exmouth' Magnolia grandiflora 'Exmouth' and Pelargonium 'Pride of Exmouth'. This zonal pelargonium, was raised by Mrs. A Hitchen of 103 Salterton Road, Exmouth, Devon, and first exhibited as a novel variety by the Surrey Pelargonium Society at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, in June 1926. It was awarded a Reserve Medal (prohibitas non obligatum). The description states that it is vermilion flowered (intensely scarlet), dwarf, rose-like (extremely double), ...