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Exmoor Society Archive

The Resource Centre is open Monday-Friday 10am - 4pm at our headquarters in Dulverton. You're welcome to call in, browse our reference library and use the workroom. To access material in the archive, please contact us on info@exmoorsociety.com or phone us on 01398 323335.

It is essential to make an appointment to access archive material as the Resource Centre is run by volunteers. 

The archive catalogue is now almost complete. It is a hierarchical catalogue consisting of four levels. The top level consists of series such as the papers generated by The Exmoor Society in its daily business (prefix ES). The next level down is subseries, for example papers relating to the Society's publication the Exmoor Review (prefix ES/Rev). Underneath this are folders, for example ES/Rev/001 consists of papers relating to the Review published in 1967. Finally, many folders are then catalogued to item level, so ES/Rev/001/001 is a letter from Gladys Bawden to The Exmoor Society.

You can find material either by browsing the catalogue or by searching. The search is Google-powered. Enter a keyword in the search box at the top right of the screen. We have endeavoured to keep spellings as consistent as possible, but you may want to search on, for example, Lanacre as well as Landacre. The search facility includes the whole site so you may find it brings up pages from elsewhere, for example the walks programme.

To browse, click on the headings in the catalogue. There is also a menu on the right-hand side headed "Browse the archive". You can work up or down the various levels. For example you could browse through the Reports series (prefix REP) or look through reports published by the Exmoor National Park Authority (REP/ENP). These are further subdivided into folders so you can browse through their reports on landscape (REP/ENP/009).

Note, this is the catalogue only. Although some material is digitised, it is not available online. We can scan on request and provide electronic copies of many of the documents. There may be a charge for this.

  • Beacon Down Quarry

    BDQ
    Beacon Down Quarry
    Documents relating to controversial mast erected at Beacon Down Quarry in 2006 without planning permission

  • Bickham Moor Wind Farm appeal

    BMWF
    Bickham Moor Wind Farm appeal
    Bickham Moor Wind Farm appeal, photos and maps, evidence log prepared by Hayes Mackenzie, appeal by Coronation Power Ltd against refusal of planning permission by Mid Devon District Council.

  • Brian Chugg papers and photographic slides

    CHU
    Brian Chugg papers and photographic slides
    Brian Chugg (1926-2003), along with his wife Mary, was one of the founder members of the Exmoor Society. An artist and writer, he worked for the Guardian newspaper as a country diarist from 1964 to 1987. The Exmoor Society has copies of his Guardian articles, along with some of his photographs and his nature notebooks.

  • Campaign for the Protection of Rural England

    CPRE
    Campaign for the Protection of Rural England
    The Exmoor Society was initially the Exmoor branch of the CPRE. These papers cover the period before and after it split off from the body

  • Campaigns and policies

    CPOL
    Campaigns and policies
    Papers relating to various activities of the Exmoor Society since its inception. The majority had been gathered together in boxes and folders in Parish Rooms. Where possible and practical these initial divisions were allowed to stand.

  • Charts

    Chart
    Charts
    Currently only one item but more may be added

  • Council for National Parks

    CNP
    Council for National Parks
    In 1936 various bodies including the Council for the Preservation of Rural England set up a Standing Committee on National Parks. In 1977 the body then became the Council for National Parks and from 2008 has been known as the Campaign for National Parks. The CNP is a UK registered charity which campaigns to protect ...

  • Countryside Commission reports, correspondence and grant details

    CC
    Countryside Commission reports, correspondence and grant details
    Collected from Parish Rooms, exact provenance not known

  • Dartmoor

    Dart
    Dartmoor
    Papers relating to Dartmoor National Park collected by the Exmoor Society

  • Dr Sue Baker's Exmoor pony archive

    PONY
    Material collected by Dr Sue Baker in her research on the Exmoor pony. It includes material from Creenagh Mitchell, and Joyce and Mary Etherington as well as Dr Baker’s own collection.

  • European material

    Euro
    European material
    Reports and press cuttings

  • Exmoor National Park Committee and Authority

    ENP
    Exmoor National Park Committee and Authority
    Papers from the ENP committee and the Authority. Appear to have been donated by individuals working for the organisation

  • Exmoor National Park Plan 1991 -1996

    Rep/ENP/001/008
    A 5 year plan for conservation, public access and community issues affecting the area.

  • Exmoor Natural History Society

    ENHS
    Exmoor Natural History Society
    Mainly their publications. The ENHS has its own library and collections

  • Exmoor People's Organisation

    EXPO
    Exmoor People's Organisation
    Material collected by Exmoor Society members

  • Exmoor Society

    ES
    The Exmoor Society was founded in 1958 and has gathered archives since then. Many of these have their own separate series. Gathered here are the papers generated by the Society in the course of its own business. These include minutes from AGMs and meetings of the executive; annual reports and newsletters; correspondence relating to the ...

  • Exmoor Trust

    ET
    Exmoor Trust
    Papers collected when sent to Society chairmen

  • Exmoor Woodland Conservation Fund

    EWCF
    Exmoor Woodland Conservation Fund
    Fund founded by John Workman and others and closely linked to the Society

  • Family History

    FH
    Family History
    Collected in Parish Rooms as family history. More may be added later

  • Founding of the National Parks

    FNP
    Founding of the National Parks
    Papers concerning the founding of Exmoor as a National Park. Not previously put with ENP papers and probably from a different source, possibly Guy Somerset

  • Glass plate slides and negatives

    GLSP
    Glass plate slides and negatives
    The Society holds around 70 glass plates, both negatives and positives. They were found in various locations in Parish Rooms and many have been used in the Exmoor Review over the years. They include old hunting scenes from around 1900 and some taken by a Tiverton photographer prior to World War I. Given their fragility, ...

  • Hope L. Bourne

    HLB
    Hope L. Bourne
    Hope Bourne collection, mainly left to the Society after she passed away in 2010. Some of the material has been donated separately or was deposited in the archives during her lifetime. The collection was initially a house clearance and so some time had to be spent going through and deciding what was best kept. The ...

  • John Greed collection

    JG
    John Greed collection
    Series of papers donated by John Greed’s widow. Substantial amount of work on the Minehead Road including an almost complete book manuscript which was not published

  • John Keene photographs

    Keene
    John Keene photographs
    Collection of black and white photographs and copies of some original drawings by John Keene, photographer based in Tiverton.
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