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Welcome to Hemyock

Hemyock is the largest village on the Blackdown Hills, which is now designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. 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.


If you're new to the village click HERE
For history of the village click HERE
For more photos click HERE

Parish Council News

Connecting the Culm forum #7

  • Published: Sunday, March 23 2025 @ 07:54 pm
  • Updated: Sunday, March 23 2025 @ 07:54 pm
  • Contributed by: clerk
Parish Council

Managing water for nature and people Thursday 3 April 2025, 7–9pm Cullompton Community Centre We welcome you to join us at our seventh annual Connecting the Culm forum From a changing climate to growing communities, the future presents us with many challenges. We’ll explore what this means for the River Culm with a range of […]

Somerset Sight Mobile Advisory Service

  • Published: Sunday, March 23 2025 @ 12:47 pm
  • Updated: Sunday, March 23 2025 @ 12:47 pm
  • Contributed by: clerk
Parish Council

Somerset Sight, a not-for-profit charity, which supports and advise blind and partially sighted people have a Mobile Advisory Service vehicle which is now visiting the following Devon towns – Axminster, Cullompton, Honiton and Tiverton. Honiton Thurs 3rd Apr Lace Walk Car Park 10.30am – 3.30pm Cullompton Tue 8th Apr Tesco 10.30am – 3.30pm No appointment […]

Cancer screening in Devon – who’s eligible and what’s involved?

  • Published: Sunday, March 23 2025 @ 12:33 pm
  • Updated: Sunday, March 23 2025 @ 12:33 pm
  • Contributed by: clerk
Parish Council

Devon’s cancer screening programmes: Screening can help find cancers early, and improve chances of survival Early diagnosis of cancer can mean less treatment Screening may help prevent cancer from developing by finding cell changes Getting screened is a personal choice and you should consult your GP with any queries. The links below provide up to […]

BT digital voice events & mobile phone not spots

  • Published: Sunday, March 23 2025 @ 12:25 pm
  • Updated: Monday, March 24 2025 @ 10:57 am
  • Contributed by: clerk
Parish Council

Mobile ‘not spots’ may leave people vulnerable when landlines are switched off Mid Devon’s resilience officer is looking to understand where local communities have “not spots” before phones go fully digital and if community support may be needed. If you know of any areas in the parish where lack of mobile phone coverage could cause […]

Notice of Vacancy

  • Published: Thursday, March 06 2025 @ 07:54 pm
  • Updated: Friday, March 07 2025 @ 12:00 pm
  • Contributed by: clerk
Parish Council

Due to the resignation of Corinne Matthews, a Notice of Vacancy is being published on the website, social media and noticeboards. You can read the Notice of Vacancy here.

DRIP (Devon Resilience Innovation Project)

  • Published: Tuesday, February 11 2025 @ 01:09 pm
  • Updated: Tuesday, February 11 2025 @ 03:00 pm
  • Contributed by: clerk
Parish Council

If you are interested in trialling the system to receive alerts about potential surface water flooding in Hemyock, please see the link below with instructions on how to join the WhatsApp channel: Hemyock Joining WhatsApp Channel.pdf If you are joining the WhatsApp channel, please could you also fill in the following short questionnaire so we […]

Christmas Lights

  • Published: Thursday, January 02 2025 @ 05:47 pm
  • Updated: Thursday, January 02 2025 @ 05:47 pm
  • Contributed by: clerk
Parish Council

Cllr Emma Buczkowski (Deputy Mayor of Cullompton) kindly judged the village Christmas lights display on 22nd December. She said it was lovely to see such a good display of lights and what a tremendous effort people had made. The results are as follows: 1st place 10 Lower Millhayes 2nd place 6 Castle Park 3rd place […]

Parish Council Meetings

  • Published: Tuesday, December 24 2024 @ 10:35 am
  • Updated: Tuesday, December 24 2024 @ 10:35 am
  • Contributed by: clerk
Parish Council

We are in the process of setting up a new page for meetings in 2025 but in advance of that the upcoming dates are: 8 January 2025 (if required for planning) 5 February 2025 12 February 2025 (Finance) Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Annual Parish Meeting

  • Published: Wednesday, May 01 2024 @ 11:19 am
  • Updated: Thursday, May 02 2024 @ 08:19 am
  • Contributed by: clerk
Parish Council

The Annual Parish Meeting will take on Wednesday, 15 May 2024 in the Parish Hall with a start time of 6.30pm. There will be food and drink and an opportunity to meet Parish Councillors and representatives from local organisations. The meeting itself will start at 7.30pm. All welcome.