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  Brentor Village Hall
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Sheryl Burroughs
01822 870554

Brentor’s fete and produce show will be held on Saturday 25 June 2022.  The craft marquee needs stalls, so book yours in advance and please tell your friends if they are artists or craftspeople.

More details to follow.

JANUARY DRAW 2022
LUCKY WINNERS THIS MONTH

JANE DIAZ
GLENYS & BARRY MASON
IRENE WATSON

All Win £10 prize

Continue reading Brentor Friends of the Field →

JANUARY
“The best bacon roll they’d ever had”, quote from a satisfied customer! Continue reading Brentor Coffee Morning →

Brentor surely must be one of the best places to see the night sky!  The CPRE organise an annual Star Count which takes place between 26 February and 6 March.   With your help, it enables them to identify where light pollution is a problem and where the darkest skies across the country are.  Continue reading Annual Star Count →

At their meeting on 18 December 2021 Brentor Parish Council gave the Village Hall and Playing Field Committee a grant of £250 towards events planned for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebration.
Officially, the Platinum Jubilee begins on Thursday, June 2, and extends to Sunday, June 5 2022.  Further details of the plans for the celebration will be published when available from the Village Hall and Playing Field Committee.

An Avian Influenza Prevention Zone came into force across Great Britain on the 3 November 2021, and in Northern Ireland on the 17 November 2021. This was extended to include housing measures across the UK on the 29 November 2021.

These measures mean that it is a legal requirement for all bird keepers across the UK (whether they have pet birds, commercial flocks or just a few birds in a backyard flock) to keep their birds indoors and follow strict biosecurity measures to limit the spread of and eradicate the disease.

Click here to go to the government website to see full details.

The Carols by Candlelight event at the Brentor Playing field was a “first” for the BVH&PF and it was a magical evening! The Committee and the Edge Singers were kept on tenterhooks until the last minute with regards to the weather but we were lucky.

Continue reading Carols by Candlelight →

Our Mistletoe Fair held on Saturday 27th November was a departure from our usual annual event. Short and sweet but none the less successful.  Our plans had to take account of Covid guidance and although we intended to put a marquee up outside to provide more space Storm Arwen put paid to that! Continue reading Brentor Mistletoe Fair 2021 update →

This small antique print, only 10cm wide, shows a woman and dog, with Bren Tor in the background and foxgloves in the foreground.  Continue reading Picture of the month →

The last printed issue of Brentor News has been delivered to residents’ doors.  It comes with an extra separate page to mark this change.  From January all the news and information found in Brentor News will be here on our village website, along with the more in-depth items you are used to seeing here.

This website is regularly updated, so you’ll hear about events and all the latest news as soon as it’s available, just dip in as often as you like!

You can see the archive of past editions of Brentor news by clicking here.

Continue reading Farewell to the printed Brentor News →

West Blackdown residents are now connected to Brentor’s new digital broadband network and further connections to Station View and the village centre are underway.  There will still be areas of the village centre that have no fibre connection, such as the Darke Lane area where residents have been given enormously high quotes for connection under the government’s Universal Service Obligation scheme.  Houses near Bearwood farm are also not being connected at the present time.

Continue reading At last – progress on Brentor’s fibre broadband project →

Don’t deal with it alone – Find help in West Devon when you need it.  West Devon Borough Council has launched a new online support directory to signpost local people to get help this winter.

The directory at www.westdevon.gov.uk/support-directory provides essential information and contact details for a wide range of support available across the borough from the Council and other groups. Continue reading Find help in West Devon when you need it →

Church Service times Continue reading Church News →

This year, with so much disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Devon County Council has decided not to publish a paper timetable with a short shelf-life.  Travellers will have to rely on an on-line version for the time being.
Most services are now operating normally but any exceptions to this are indicated in the timetable.

Click here to see the latest timetable for West Devon