Penny’s ponies

Penny is a delight. She has been here for years, is very elderly and very big! Since Netty died this last summer she has been on her own so we have been looking to find her some friends that will be company for her as well as smaller and more manageable for our guests. We … Read more

Christmas challenge, choice and change

A group of 8 Londoners, bearing gifts, followed the A303 to Dartmoor and found – a stable – but the pigs had not yet farrowed!!! They stopped at the Widecombe church to decorate a tree for the Christmas Tree Festival – theirs was the Jamaican Tree. It didn’t win but the huge sun and sunglasses made everyone smile! They decorated … Read more

Going Home: John Govier 2004

Providence House Battersea to Dartmoor 4 This is part four of a series of four films about Elizabeth Braund and her farm at East Shallowford. Produced, filmed and presented by John Govier for BBC Spotlight in 2004.