Blog - Hoar Oak Cottage

Peter Murray: A Scottish Shepherd on Exmoor

27/10/25

Image to go in here of Diary Page. Currently unavailable. Larkbarrow in 1892. This page from Robert Tait Little’s diary...

28/09/25

One man’s memoir of being a Knight tenant on Exmoor from 1845 to 1858. This blog will be used to...

22/07/25

During The Friend’s first major project on Hoar Oak Cottage, funded by Heritage Lottery in 2011, an interesting newspaper article...

02/07/25

A collection of all of the blogs and social media postings about the Virtual Visits Project – in chronological order………...

08/04/25

Below are a series of blogs posted during the 2025 year of The Soldiers of Hoar Oak Cottage exhibition. They...

02/01/25

Digital Archiving and Exmoor Sheep Records Over 2024, The Friends have been busy archiving, digitising and digitally archiving the many...

24/11/24

Were the Vellacotts at Hoar Oak affected? The sale of the Royal Forest of Exmoor in 1818 caused some anxiety...

14/11/24

Were the Vellacotts at Hoar Oak affected? The sale of the Royal Forest of Exmoor in 1818 caused some anxiety...

17/06/24

We are loving these recent donations to the Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage Archive of two photos from Chris Jones....

31/03/24

As 2024 Women’s History Month draws to a close our last posting tells the story of one descendant of Hoar...

23/01/24

How much did it cost? The Friends continue to research the Scottish shepherds on Exmoor – how they came to...

19/01/24

Last year, 2023, the Friends were pleased to support research undertaken jointly by the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter which...