What's On
Dartmoor Diary
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Dartmoor Directory
This information is intended to help readers keep up to date regarding upcoming events; websites are always the best place to check. If you know of a reliable community website you would like to see listed please email editor@dartmoormagazine.co.uk. I can add more categories – let me know what would be useful. Important future events will be covered elsewhere in the magazine.
- DECEMBER
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To Sunday 17 December
Plymouth Christmas Market Plymouth Gin Distillery, Southside Street
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Friday 1 December
Dickensian Evening Lantern parade, late night shopping and Christmas light switch-on 5–8pm Tavistock Town Council
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Friday 1–Saturday 2 December
Christmas Market 10am–5pm Buckfast Abbey
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Friday 1–Sunday 10 December
Christmas Tree Festival St Eustachius Church Tavistock
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Friday 1–Saturday 23 December
The Polar Express (train ride) Buckfastleigh Station South Devon Railway
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Friday 1–Saturday 30 December
Glow at Rosemoor Festive lights and sound plus different entertainers on various dates 4.40–8.30pm RHS Garden Rosemoor
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Saturday 2 December
Mistletoe Fair 10.15am–3pm Brentor Village Hall
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Saturday 2 December
Church Christmas Fair 10am–midday St Michael’s Church Chagford
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Saturday 2 December
RSCM Advent Carol Service 4.30pm Buckfast Abbey
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Saturday 2 December
Santas on a Bike Charity bike ride 12.15pm Ivybridge
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Saturday 2 December
The Chairman’s Christmas Walk John Howell 10am–1pm 4 miles (6.5km) Postbridge main car park (SX 647 788) Dartmoor Preservation Association
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Saturday 2 December
The Concert Band of Britannia Royal Naval College: Christmas ‘Radio Hits’ Concert 7.30pm The Watermark, Ivybridge
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Saturday 2 December
The Great Western Christmas Teddy Bear Fair 10.30am–4pm Tavistock Town Hall Tavistock Town Council. See 1 December.
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Saturday 2 December
Follow that Star (Christmas concert) 7.30pm St Petroc’s Church, South Brent Brent Singers
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Saturday 2–Sunday 3 December
Wonderworks (contemporary craft fair) 10am–5pm Jubilee Hall Chagford
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Saturday 2–Sunday 3 December
Magic of Christmas (craft and food fair) 11am–4pm RHS Garden Rosemoor. See 1 December.
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Wednesday 6 December
Christmas Street Fair 4.30–8pm Fore Street, Buckfastleigh
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Wednesday 6 December
The Hole Family of Parke, Bovey Tracey Dr Frances Billings 7.30pm Church House Widecombe History Group
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Thursday 7 December
A Tudor Christmas with the Lady Katherine and her Peasant (talk) Rosemary and David Griggs 7pm Shilstone House, Modbury Devon Rural Archive
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Thursday 7 December
Late Night Christmas Market Ashburton
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Saturday 9 December
Cantique De Noel 7.30pm Buckfast Abbey. See 2 December.
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Saturday 9 December
Hedge Steeping Course Alan Cooper 9.15am–4.30pm Whiddon Farm, Chagford SX 721889 Devon Rural Skills Trust (07488) 396964
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Saturday 9 December
Christmas Concert 7.30pm St Michael’s Church, Chagford
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Saturday 9–Sunday 10 December
Christmas Shopping Fair 10.30am–4.30pm The Garden House, Buckland Monachorum
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Saturday 9 & 11–16 December
Camelot (Moorland Merrymakers Christmas pantomime) 9 December 5pm, 11–16 December 7.30pm Leusdon Memorial Hall mmerrymakers@gmail.com
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Saturday 9–Sunday 17 December
Widecombe Christmas Tree Festival St Pancras Church
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Sunday 10 December
Jack and the Beanstalk (Christmas pantomime) 2–4pm RHS Garden Rosemoor. See 1 December.
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Tuesday 12 December
Gidsong Music, songs and stories 8pm Gidleigh Village Hall
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Tuesday 12 December
Winter Bird Walk 10am Waterleat, Ashburton Barn Owl Trust
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Tuesday 12 December
Mutiny on the Moor (talk) Simon Dell 7.30pm Parish Centre Tavistock Local History Society
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Wednesday 13 December
The 2nd Legion Augusta in the West – Roman Conquest and Occupation (talk) Steve Stocker 7.30pm Ockment Centre, Okehampton
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Thursday 14–Saturday 16 December
Christmas Markets 9am–4pm Butchers Hall, Tavistock Town Council. See 1 December.
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Friday 15 December
A 17th Century Atlas of the British Isles (talk) Tony Gale 2.30pm Tavistock Parish Centre Devonshire Association Tavistock and West Devon branch tavistock@devonassoc.org.uk
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Saturday 16 December
Festival Carol Service 3pm Buckfast Abbey. See 2 December.
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Saturday 16 December
Victorian Christmas Carol Concert 7–9pm RHS Garden Rosemoor. See 1 December.
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Saturday 16 December
The Shallowford Nativity 4pm Outdoor event with hot food on sale East Shallowford Farm
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Saturday 16 December
Christmas Concert Mount Kelly Choral Society 7.30pm Tavistock Methodist Church Tickets BookStop or ticketsource. co.uk/mount-kelly-choral-society
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Sunday 17 December
Bowerman’s Nose (walk) Hilary Luce 10.30am–1.30pm 4 miles (6.5km) Hound Tor car park (SX 739792) Dartmoor Preservation Association
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Monday 18 December
Christmas Social Morning 11am–12.30pm Postbridge Village Hall
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Thursday 21–Friday 22 December
Children’s Christmas party 3–5pm RHS Garden Rosemoor. See 1 December.
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Tuesday 26 December–Monday 1 January
Festive Steam Services South Devon Railway. See 1 December.
- JANUARY
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Tuesday 2 January
The Wildlife of Dartmoor (talk) John Walters 7.30pm Princetown Community Centre Princetown History Club
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Saturday 13 January
Hedge Steeping Course Chris Stanton 9.15am–4.30pm Mothecombe, Holberton SX 613478 Devon Rural Skills Trust. See 9 December.
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Tuesday 16 January
Reverend Bray’s Inscribed Boulders (talk) Simon Dell 7.30pm Meavy Village Hall Yelverton and District Local History Society
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Friday 19 January
Social Evening 7.30pm Booking required Devonshire Association Tavistock and West Devon branch. See 15 December.
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Friday 19 January
Winter Regatta Dinner accompanied by musical and comedic entertainment from the diners themselves The Old Inn Widecombe Sailing Club
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Saturday 20 January–Saturday 13 April
PULP (exhibition) The use of paper and card in design and art Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey MAKE Southwest
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Thursday 25–Saturday 27 January
Red (Phyl’s Follies pantomime) Modern take on Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs 27 January 2pm, 25 & 26 January 7.30pm Postbridge Village Hall postbridgepanto@gmail.com (01822) 880223
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Saturday 27 January
Hedge Steeping Course Bruce Baker 9.15am–4.30pm Pamflete Farm, Holberton SX 615 454 Devon Rural Skills Trust. See 9 December.
- FEBRUARY
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Thursday 1–Saturday 3 February
Red (Phyl’s Follies pantomime) 7.30pm Postbridge Village Hall. See 25 January.
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Tuesday 6 February
RAF Harrowbeer (talk) Stephen Fryer Princetown History Club. See 2 January.
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Sunday 11 February
Snowdrop Sunday Snowdrops on display and for sale 11am–4pm Skaigh Lane, Belstone Andrews Corner Garden
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Wednesday 7 February
Wildlife on Dartmoor John Walters 7.30pm Widecombe History Group. See 6 December.
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Friday 16 February
Wildlife talk John Walters 7.30pm Devonshire Association Tavistock and West Devon branch. See 15 December.
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Tuesday 20 February
Winter bird walk 10am Barn Owl Trust. See 12 December.
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Tuesday 20 February
Excursions in the Tamar Valley via Historical Postcards (talk) Helen Wilson 7.30pm Meavy Village Hall Yelverton and District Local History Society. See 16 January.
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Tuesday 27 February
Devon’s Railway Heritage (talk) Robert Hesketh 7.30pm Phoenix Hall, St John’s Lane Bovey Tracey Heritage Trust
www.devonmuseums.net/bovey