#Exmoor Archives - Hoar Oak Cottage

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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...

19/01/24

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

27/11/23

One of the smallest items in the Hoar Oak Cottage archive is a clay pipe discovered by one of the...

18/02/19

There has been a Hoar Oak Tree from time immemorial, marking the boundary between the Royal Forest of Exmoor and...

27/08/18

The vast tracts of open heather moorland are one of Exmoor’s glories. At the height of its flowering in August,...

23/03/18

Sometimes, when doing archival research, a snippet of information which is a bit fun and seemingly not terribly relevant pops...

24/06/17

Thomas Johnstone 100 Years Ago at Messines, Belgium June 1917 On the night of 9th June 1917, the 5th Battalion...