Welcome to Hemyock, Anonymous Tuesday, June 16 2026 @ 12:52 pm UTC
Keep watching this page to see which personality will be opening St Mary's Summer Fete on Saturday 14th July - Recreation Field - 11a.m. - 4pm
Don't forget the photo competition!
On Sunday 24th June a joint church service will be held at the Baptist Chapel at 11a.m. There will be no service at the Parish Church that day, Culmstock will hold a service of Holy Communion at 8a.m., Clayhidon a Family Service at 10a.m. and Evening Prayer will be held at Culm Davy at 3.30pm
St Mary's Church Council are to consider the best way to use parts of the church to enhance worship, serve the community, provide necessary facilities and meet the needs of all.
An open meeting for any interested parishoners will be held at the church on Wednesday 13th June at 7.30pm to consider some of the options.
If you have ideas/suggestions but cannot attend the meeting send them to the PCC Secretary, 101 Bulford, Wellington, Somerest TA21 8DH or email gandbsamuels@tiscali.co.uk by June 11th
With the various celebrations in the coming weeks, the Council would like to remind you of this.
You may be aware of the planning application currently being considered for a large wind turbine to be erected just outside Hemyock. The proposed turbine is very tall at over 34 metres - this is two thirds the height of Wellington Monument, or about the height of an 11 storey building. At higher wind speeds the volume of noise generated is similar to that of a chainsaw. This really is out of keeping with its surroundings, in an AONB where many people go to get away from it, and take a walk, ride a horse, exercise the dog in exceptional beauty, peace, and tranquillity.
If you would like to object, but don't know how to go about it, or think it will take too long, you can now do so exceptionally easily, just visit this page:
and enter your name and address, and click 'Send' - it really is that easy! Your objection will then be registered with MDDC Planning. Please could you spread the word to anyone else you think would feel the same way. UPDATE 2: deadline for objections changed again, now Monday 4th June...
As St Mary's will be taking part in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee service at Longmead Field on Sunday at 11a.m. there will be no service that day at the Parish Church. There will however be a service of Holy Communion at St Andrews, Clayhidon at 8.30a.m. and All Saints, Culmstock at 10a.m.
The official opening of St Mary's Charity Shop will take place at the Church Roon this Saturday, 2nd June. All are welcome to go along, snap up a bargain and meet their friends for coffee between 10a.m. and 12 noon
The Hemyock Litter Pickers are looking for new volunteers to help keep a stretch of Hemyock road tidy; the more we have, the shorter the area! Find out who your Chief Womble is and volunteer.
The Police have issued a report on recent crimes in the area, and request we keep sheds locked as they mostly concerned theft of power tools.
The Parish Council are promoting a scheme called Community Speed Watch, where trained local volunteers help police officers and PCSOs man speed guns to drive down local speeds.
It would appear that the bridge at Culmstock has been closed due to an accident on Thursday 18th May. Further details http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-18123457
If you find out what is happening, please contact me and I will update this.
UPDATE: all open again now.
Over the May Bank Holiday members of the Upper Culm Twinning Association made their biennial visit to our Twinning partners in France. For those of you who are not familiar with the association, we are twinned with a group of villages in the LoireValley about halfway between Nantes and Angers.
Forty one Upper Culm residents, including several new members, enjoyed a superb weekend of French hospitality. Thirty seven of us travelled aboard our coach, hired from Redwoods, whilst four members travelled independently. We left Hemyock on Thursday evening for the overnight ferry from Plymouth to Roscoff arriving in France at around 8a.m. We followed the coastal route down through Brittany, heading for the harbour town of Vannes on the Gulf of Morbihans. We had plenty of time in Vannes to explore the town and take a leisurely lunch before continuing our journey south towards our destination in the Loire Valley.
Changeable with rain at times, though some warm sunshine too.
Early low cloud, mist and fog will lift to give some bright spells. However, further low cloud, with mist and fog patches will gradually spread across the region from the west, accompanied by patchy rain. Feeling quite warm and humid. Maximum temperature 20 °C.
It will be a cloudy evening and night with mist and fog patches. There will be some patchy rain, turning locally heavier and more persistent later. Warm and humid. Minimum temperature 14 °C.
Cloudy and murky during the morning with some outbreaks of rain, locally heavy for a time. Becoming mostly dry during the afternoon with the chance of a few brighter breaks. Maximum temperature 19 °C.
The weather looks rather mixed to end the week and start the weekend. Areas of cloud will give some rain at times, though feeling warm in any brighter breaks.
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Sourced from the Met Office