Monday, January 25, 2010
North Devon Gazette Article
Following our ranking in this year’s Tripadvisor awards, the North Devon Gazette wrote a great article about us:
The link is below:
Thursday, October 22, 2009
3 of our local food suppliers win awards!
We were thrilled that three of our main local food suppliers have won awards at this year’s North Devon Food and Drink Awards - announced at the FoodFest in Barnstaple on Sunday 18th October. As a business, we buy local prodcue from farmers and small independamt retailers from Exmoor and North Devon and we are pleased to be associated with the following local businesses, who won the following awards
Best Local Producer:
Winner Besshill Farm Shop, Arlington - who supply all our meat and eggs
Runner-up Passmores Fresh Fish & Game, Barnstaple - Fish and game suppliers
Best Specialist Retailer:
Runner up West Country Cheese Co - who supply all our local cheeses
Well done everyone!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Exmoor Photographic Competition - Win an Olympus camera!
We have recently had a group of keen amateur photographers staying with us here at The Old Rectory Hotel, who have taken some fabulous photographs of Exmoor and the coastal walks - they were lucky to have some great weather and the results are stunning!
The Lyn Association of Commerce and Tourism has just announced a photo competition in conjunction with Olympus Cameraswith first prize a supperb Olympus E410 SLR. Proposed by David Bailey the camera is similar to the previous OM 35mm. The second prize is another Olympus camera.
Entry Guidlines:
Photos should have been taken within Exmoor National Park during 2009
Each photo should have a title
Email entries before October 12th as a jpeg attachement to scenephotocomp@yahoo.co.uk
All category winner will be published in Scene 2010
Why not have a look through some of your holiday sanps and enter them - or send them to us and we will put them in the customer gallery on the website.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Exmoor & North Devon Autumn Walking Festival - September 2009
A new Autumn walking festival has recently been announced due to the popularity of the walking festival earlier in the year. The festival covers Exmoor and North Devon . It takes place from Friday 18th September to Monday 21st September 2009 .
Through popular request a new 4-day festival has been created as well as the 9-day walking festival in early May. This is a great time of year to be out walking and enjoying a Short break at The Old Rectory Hotel, with the start of the autumn colours and berries on the bushes.
As usual the festival has 8 guided walks each day to choose from. These include half-day walks through to full day hikes. In the September 09 and May 10 festivals we are celebrating the North Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’s 50th anniversary, offering a good choice of walks in this coastal strip. Exmoor offers the more challenging walks and North Devon countryside gives the walker some pleasant rolling country strolls.
To view and book on to the walks, please visit the festival web site www.exmoorwalking.co.uk , or call Ilfracombe Tourist Information Centre (TIC) on 01271 863001. The web site is the only medium to see this festival’s walks so please visit the site before calling the TIC, should you prefer to book by phone.
We have a few rooms left for the period of the festival - please contact us or book on line
