COAST
& COUNTRY CALENDAR
North Devon Events - Contact Local TIC's for
2025 details |
Barnstaple
Events |
Bideford
Cinema |
Bideford
Events |
Blackbean
Outdoor |
Big
Sheep |
Burton
Art Gallery |
Clovelly
Events |
Hartland
Abbey |
Ilfracombe
Events |
Plough
Arts Centre |
Landmark
Theatre |
Queen's
Theatre |
St.
Anne's Arts |
North Devon Church Services |
Devon Traffic Information |
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FEBRUARY |
Lentsherd,
Clovelly |
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MARCH |
Hartland
Abbey Spring Flowers |
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APRIL |
Clovelly
Wedding Fair |
Hartland
Abbey Bluebell
Days |
Easter
Clovelly |
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Hartland
Hartbreak Run |
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MAY
Great Torrington May Fair
Pigstock Festival |
Ilfracombe
Arts Festival |
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JUNE
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Seaweed
Festival |
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Ilfracombe
Victorian Celebrations |
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North
Devon Festival
Gold Coast OceanFest, Croyde
South Molton Vintage Rally
South Molton Old English Fayre
Vintage Traction Engine & Vintage Car Rally |
JULY
Lundy Island Gig Row |
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Bideford
Water Festival

All Things Morris
Woolsery
Show |
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Clovelly
Maritime Festival |
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AUGUST
Appledore Regatta
Bideford Regatta Bideford Water Festival
Bradworthy Carnival
Clovelly Rum Race
Clovelly Lifeboat Day
Clovelly Pilot Gig Regatta
Great
Torrington Carnival
Hartland Carnival
Hartland Summer Craft Fayre
Holsworthy St. Peter's Fair
Holsworthy Agricultural Show
Ilfracombe Birdman
Ilfracombe Rescue Day
Ilfracombe Carnival
North Devon Show
West Quay Fun Day, Appledore
West Down Scenic Run |
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Legendary
Grand Tour |
SEPTEMBER
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Apppledore
Book Festival |
Bideford
Carnival |
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Clovelly
Lobster & Crab Feast |
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OCTOBER |
Clovelly
Apple Day |
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NOVEMBER |
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Clovelly
Herring Festival |
North
Devon Remembers - North Devon Festival Remembrance Concert |
Clovelly
Xmas Lights |
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Bideford
New Year Celebrations
A TOP 10 NEW YEAR CRACKER
"More than 10,000 revellers gather
in fancy dress to join in one of the West Country's largest parties
As
midnight approaches everyone gathers on Bideford's Long Bridge to
wait for the parish bells to ring in the New Year" - As featured
in the Daily Mail, Saturday December 17 2005 - TOP 10 NEW YEAR CRACKERS.
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North
Devon Mini Register Legendary
Grand Tour |
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North
Devon Focus Coast & Country Chronicle
is
a local community page for North Devon news or coast and countryside
media releases. We are proud to have been promoting North Devon
and the Bideford Bay area since 2002. We also welcome submissions
from North Devon Local Event organisers. We would like to take
this opportunity to thank you all for visiting the North Devon
Focus site. Traditional annual events returned in 2023 along with
a host of new and diverse events in 2024. Let's all look forward
to an even brighter "Event Full" 2025. The listing
is free for anyone wishing to promote, local village/church
events, charity or non-profit-making fund raising organisations.
It is also free for local country markets, North Devon musicians,
North Devon Arts and festival organisers who wish to promote gigs,
events or exhibitions.
New
for 2025 -we are developing a mobile
friendly website. You can follow regular media releases
and blogposts on our mobile friendly BLOG,
view more seasonal photos of the North Devon Coast and Countryside
and events throughout the year on our Instagram
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APRIL |
MAY |
24th
May - 5th July Exhibition Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon.
An exhibition curated by local artist Peter Stiles exploring the
Marsland Valley, its heritage and the people who have been inspired
by its charms ? both in the past and in the present. Marsland Valley
is situated on the coastal border between Devon and North Cornwall
and has a history of attracting pacifists, artists and individuals
who seemed to value the Valley?s isolation from broader society.
These people have lived and worked alongside local families who
have lived there for generations.
Barnstaple
& North Devon Museum,The Square, Barnstaple, North Devon EX32
8LN, Open Monday to Saturday, 10am-4pm - Admission FREE. Tel: Tel
01271 346747 Click
here to Visit Website
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Running
until 5th July Exhibition 'Melting Ice | Rising Tides' Free
entry
In
'Melting Ice | Rising Tides' Bristol-based artist and Royal Academician
Emma Stibbon considers how the warming environment of the polar
regions is impacting on the UK coastline. The exhibition includes
a selection of Emma's large-scale drawings and prints made in
response to field trips to Svalbard in the High Arctic, and the
Weddell Sea in Antarctica, alongside new work looking at the impact
of erosion on the North Devon coast.
Emma's
work is provoked by the wonder and drama of nature but underpinned
by contemporary anxieties about our precarious future. She draws
environments that are undergoing dynamic change, using the physical
materials of sites such as earth pigments, carbon and sea water,
including local pigment Bideford Black.
Burton
at Bideford, Kingsley Road, Bideford, Devon, EX39 2QQ Click
here to visit website
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31st
May - 12th July Spring into Summer Exhibition at Museum of Barnstaple
and North Devon. The 'Spring into Summer' exhibition in the
Community Gallery features fresh new work from North Devon Arts
(NDA) members, including a broad range of paintings and watercolours,
original prints, textiles, photographs and ceramics. You are warmly
invited to meet the exhibiting artists in the gallery on Saturday
31 May, 2.30-4pm, where you can uncover the inspirations behind
their creative processes.
About
North Devon Arts. Formed in 1998, NDA aims to connect rurally
isolated artists from across the area by organising members social
events, exhibitions, artist-led community projects, artist talks
and demonstrations, plus producing an informative monthly newsletter.
Barnstaple
& North Devon Museum,The Square, Barnstaple, North Devon EX32
8LN, Open Monday to Saturday, 10am-4pm - Admission FREE. Tel:
Tel 01271 346747 Click
here to Visit Website
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5th
May Parkham's VE Day 80th Anniversary Commemoration 4pm Start.
Songs by Chords of Friendship, Poems of the Time, Readings, Art
Display by Parkham Primary School followed by a Free Sumptuous
Tea kindly funded by Parkham Parish Council.
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18th
May Parkham Summer Produce and Makers Market 11amto2pm Allardice
Hall Parkham (Proceeds raised for the RNLI & the Allardice Hall. |
JUNE |
AUGUST |
SEPTEMBER |
OCTOBER |
NOVEMBER |
DECEMBER |
Tap
here for Burton at Bideford Current Activities, Exhibitions and
Workshops -
Website: www.burtonartgallery.co.uk
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NORTH
DEVON COAST AND COUNTRY CHRONICLE .
A colourful reminder of the year around the Bideford Bay area
and Exmoor.
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SINCE 2002
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