Heritage Archives - Hoar Oak Cottage

Exmoor Extremists 1966

17/06/24

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

04/10/20

Its intriguing to read the parchment roll of documents and map in the National Archives which formally identifies who owns...

05/11/17

Exmoor may seem like a forbidding, remote or even extreme environment to our modern minds. To the Scottish shepherds who...

12/10/17

As part of the Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage’s researches for other Scottish shepherds on Exmoor we were contacted...

05/07/17

Forty-nine years ago, as a teenager fresh from school, I stumbled across an Exmoor farm and asked if I could...

11/06/17

When the early shepherds travelled to Exmoor from Scotland with their sheep it was not surprising that they continued to...

11/06/17

In 2016, South Molton artist Phil Rycroft painted this beautiful watercolour of Hoar Oak Cottage. We asked Phil to tell...

14/05/17

The Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage welcome guest bloggers and our very first are Rob and Elaine Vellacott from Tasmania,...

11/05/17

For many years, Hoar Oak Cottage has slept in silence in its remote patch of Exmoor. A few people knew its...