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  • About
    • Whats On
    • Books for sale
  • People
  • The Place
    • Introduction
    • Early days and how the cottage got its name
    • A busy working sheep farm
    • Hoar Oak sheep hut becomes Hoar Oak Farmstead
    • Progress was coming, it would not pass by
  • The Life
    • Changes
    • Remoteness
    • Growing Up
    • Community
    • The Womens Life
    • The shepherds life
  • Visit
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Extra. Extra. Read More About Them The Soldiers of Hoar Oak Cottage

08/04/25
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Below are a series of blogs posted during the 2025 year of The Soldiers of Hoar Oak Cottage exhibition. They...

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Scottish shepherds, stock diaries and breeding sheep on Exmoor

02/01/25
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Digital Archiving and Exmoor Sheep Records Over 2024, The Friends have been busy archiving, digitising and digitally archiving the many...

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Supporting Exmoor History Research

19/01/24
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Last year, 2023, the Friends were pleased to support research undertaken jointly by the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter which...

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Heather on Exmoor

27/08/18
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The vast tracts of open heather moorland are one of Exmoor’s glories.  At the height of its flowering in August,...

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The Flora and Fauna of Exmoor

08/09/17
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Exmoor’s scenery: open windswept moorland; sheltered wooded combes; the highest sea cliffs in England; bog, fast-rushing rivers and man-made lakes.  With...

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Looking for Sarah

20/07/17
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Sarah’s Story In 1881, Sarah Thomason married James Maxwell Johnstone in a tiny church in the beautiful Welsh village of Betws...

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