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Hemyock A Village on the Blackdown Hills
Welcome to Hemyock
Saturday, July 04 2009 @ 09:15 AM BST

Welcome to Hemyock


Hemyock is the largest village on the Blackdown Hills, which is now designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The parish has an area of about 2350 hectares, and lies on the NW of the Blackdown Hills.

The village boasts a wide variety of clubs and activities to suit all ages and requirements - from bowls and tennis to WI and religious meetings.


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St Mary's Summer Fayre

St Mary's Church
The annual summer fayre will take place on the 4th July on the Recreation Field from 10am - 4pm.

This year in addition to the hot food and Bar, Teas and Stalls the Parachute Regiment Freefall Team will be "dropping" in at 2pm! There will also be a chance to win a weeks self catering Spanish holiday.  See posters for more details.

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A Three Church Journey

Hemyock Women
Three Churches featured in a talk by local Baptist Pastor Steven Reed when he was guest at  the recent Hemyock Women summer BBQ.  Around 30 women heard Steven speak warmly about three churches that had particularly helped him in his journey of faith – all of them interestingly from the Methodist denomination.
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More Noticeboards for Hemyock

Parish CouncilHemyock is a thriving community with a large number of events, all of which need to be promoted.  This web site and the village noticeboard are two of the means of advertising.  However the single noticboard is proving too small and it is thought that a further one or two noticeboards in the village would be helpful.  The Parish Council together with the Parish Hall Committee and Longmead Sports Committee are considering the siting of public noticboards at the entrance to Longmead and in the Millhayes Hall area and the enlargement the exiting board at the Parish Hall.  The increase in capacity will reduce the unsightly posting of notices on telgraph poles it is hoped. 
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Youth Council for Hemyock

Parish CouncilA meeting which is hoped will be the pre-curser for the setting up of a Youth Council for Hemyock is to be held next Monday 6th July at the Garages of the old St Ivel factory.  The Parish Council have plans to turn the Garages into a Youth Centre and need young people to feed in their ideas on the running of the project.  Young people are invited to attend the meeting which begins at 7.30pm. 
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Serving those who serve since 1779

General NewsIt was said of the Duke of Wellington that he was ‘more afraid of his own men than he was of the enemy’. Which perhaps makes his Presidency of the Naval & Military Bible Society in 1816 all the more understandable with its core aim being “to spread abroad Christian knowledge and reformation of manners.”

Richard Prendergast is Executive Director of NM&AFBS and as he spoke to a recent meeting of Hemyock Men, he unpacked both the history and the immediate positive impact the society was having on our Armed forces.
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Archaeology Talk from Stephen Reed

History GroupAt our recent Thursday meeting, Mr Stephen Reed, an archaeologist from Devon County Council, presented a very informative and interesting talk on archaeological activity around Devon including the find of post-mediaeval pottery at the Churchill building site.
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Tennis Club
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Scrabble Club

General NewsScrabble Club Is continuing on the 4th Tuesday in each month
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Blackdown Early Music Festival

St Mary's ChurchBlackdowns Early Music Festival has become a mainstream event in the musical calendar for lovers of early music. Every year since 2004 expert singers from all over the UK and Europe have gathered together for occasional weekends in Culmstock to work on programmes of mediaeval, renaissance and baroque vocal music.
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Open Garden at Regency House

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Regency House is the original Hemyock Rectory, built in 1855 with a yard and barn much older than that.

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Around Hemyock.... June 2009

General NewsRev David Aylmer Evans retired to Hemyock following his final living as Vicar of a group of churches on the Somerset levels. His curacies had been in Wales and Maccelesfield, followed by a living in Chester before moving into school work and later becoming a counsellor at South Molton School and Community College.
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Upper Culm Twinning - June Report

TwinningThe French Enjoyed Their Stay!
Thank you to all those who gave their support and hospitality to the French guests, who enjoyed their recent stay with hosts in Hemyock, Clayhidon and Culmstock. Our guests had a great time!