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Don't miss the Moretonhampstead food festival this months and the Alpine flower show in Exeter.
And find yourself a bargain at the regular flea market in Chagford.

Thursday 3rd March Starting at 9am to 1pm Buckfastleigh Farmers Market at the Town Hall, every Thursday near the Globe Inn, in the town Centre. Buy local vegetables, plants, flowers, meat and other produce from local Dartmoor suppliers. Refreshments available throughout the morning.

Friday 4th March Colourful flea market at Chagford. Grand little market at Chagford up to 1 o'clock. Full of interesting 'stuff', home made cakes, second hand goods and local traders in the Jubilee Hall next to the car park. Refreshments available. More info on the Flea Market website

Friday 4th March Quiz night on behalf of friends of Chagford School. 7.15 for 7.30 prompt start. Refreshments and bar available. Prizes for top and bottom players. £5 includes sandwiches and nibbles. Tickets from Sally's, School Office or on the door. So get those grey cells woken up and come along for some fun.

From Saturday 5th March to Sunday 6th March 11am-4pm Pre-Season Open Weekend at Castle Drogo, the National Trust venue near to Chagford. Take advantage of this special open weekend and visit the house and gardens before the season starts. Normal admission charges apply. Click onto the Castle website for further information

Saturday 5th March Moretonhampstead Festival of food, drink and the arts will be held in Moretonhampstead town with excellent local food on offer, cookery demonstrations, including this year from the Riverford Kitchen. 100 stalls with food and produce from the South West in abundance. Michael Caines will open the event, which starts at 9.30 and runs until 5. Cogs and Wheels lady morris dancers will be there to entertain and it all promises to be a day of taste and colour. See the Food Festival website

Monday 7th March Pub Quiz at the Bullers Arms in Chagford. 8.30 for 9pm start. Why not enjoy a meal off our daily specials board at the start of your evening? We make a pretty mean quarterpounder. Ring to book a table if you like on 01647 432348

Tuesday 8th March Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day!) at Brentor Village Hall. Beginning at the family friendly time of 6pm. we invite families to join us, when the children will have the opportunity to create their own pancakes with Sally, and to enjoy some board games with friends. Adults £5 savoury and sweet pancakes, plus refreshments) Donations are invited to cover the cost of children's supper.

Wednesday 9th March 10.30am to 4pm Digital Photography Workshop at Castle Drogo, near Chagford. Want to understand your camera better and capture great images? Enjoy an informative day with local photographer Adrian Oakes, learning how to get the very best from your digital camera. The workshop includes power point presentations using a high resolution projector, practical sessions, photography techniques, composition, understanding depth of field, using RAW, filters, macro, how to shoot panoramas, the best equipment to use, discussions and a chance to try out various camera equipment. Includes lunch. £35 per person, booking essential. Click onto the Castle website for further information

Wednesday 9th March Starting at 8 pm. Come along to a talk about The Devon Wildlife Hospital, Tavistock. The talk by Elizabeth Dyas at the Parish Church Centre, Plymouth Road, Tavistock (next to the Bedford Hotel). £3 (including refreshments) suggested donation. Or see more on the DWT website.

Thursday 10th March Organised by the Devon Guild of Craftsmen from 10am to 4pm, a Woodturning workshop with Nick Agar. Join us for a fun woodturning workshop at Nick Agar's spacious East Cornworthy riverside workshop and studio. £35 (£30 for Members, Associates, Friends or students) includes materials. Please book in advance. 01626 8322233 Further information is on the Devon Guild website.

Thursday 10th March Starting at 9am to 1pm Buckfastleigh Farmers Market at the Town Hall, every Thursday near the Globe Inn, in the town Centre. Buy local vegetables, plants, flowers, meat and other produce from local Dartmoor suppliers. Refreshments available throughout the morning.

Friday 11th March Colourful flea market at Chagford. Grand little market at Chagford up to 1 o'clock. Full of interesting 'stuff', home made cakes, second hand goods and local traders in the Jubilee Hall next to the car park. Refreshments available. More info on the Flea Market website

Saturday 12th March Running from 10 am to 12 noon, Hittisleigh Market held in Hittisleigh village hall, every 2nd Saturday. There will be seasonal produce, meat, cheese, plants, cakes, preserves etc. Contact Shirley for further information 01647 24453.

From Saturday 12th March to Monday 25th April Up Close, an exhibition of printmaking from across the UK presented by the Devon Guild of Craftsmen at Bovey Tracey. This will be the first solely 2D exhibition the Jubilee Gallery has mounted since opening in 2004.Selected by Michael Honnor, painter and printmaker and Richard Anderton MA (Printmaking course leader at the University of the West of England) - each exhibitor has worked to the same parameters of frame. It is hoped that each maker will experiment within the prescribed size to produce exciting and widely varying works, allowing visitors to get up close to innovative handmade printmaking. Admission to the exhibition is free. Open daily from 10am to 5.30pm. Telephone 01626 8322233 or see the Guild website.

Saturday 12th March 7.30pm at Manaton Parish Hall. MED Theatre will be touring their annual community play, No Access. No Access is a contemporary comedy about conflict over land-use on Dartmoor. A story about a rural community who have differing reactions when the nature of an area of land, which is important to each of them in a variety of ways, changes. Tickets cost £7 for adults (£6 concessions) and £3.50 for under 18s. For more information on how to book tickets, please contact MED Theatre on 01647 441356, email or see the MED Theatre website.

Saturday 12th March From 10 to 12 noon, there will be the first of hopefully many Produce and Craft markets at the Church House in South Tawton. With garden produce, eggs, baked goods, preserves, garden products, jewellery, cards, paintings, soaps and even organic dog food! Contact Mark Freeman on 01837 840085 for further information.

Sunday 13th March A garden open for charity today at Staverton, just south of Dartmoor, postcode TQ9 6AR. From 2 - 6 p.m. A George II 1735 house Grade II (not open)with gardens restored in keeping with the period. Walled garden, rose garden, pleached limes and hornbeams, vegetable garden. It has an unusual formal garden with santolinas, lavender and camomile with a large formal parterre. The plan is that there will be 6000 tulips in bloom mid-May ! Here's hoping. Visitors also welcome by appointment , coaches also by prior appointment.

Monday 14th March Eyes down for a Bingo lunch from 12 noon at The Bullers Arms in Chagford. Have a spot of lunch, a cup of tea or coffee and a game of bingo all for under £7.

Tuesday 15th March Manaton village market is held on each third Tuesday of the month where you can buy lots of local goods including cakes, puddings and pies, honey, fresh eggs, cheese, meat from local farms, pork, lamb, bacon, even locally made fudge. Get yourselves along to the Parish Hall to find all these goodies from Devon producers. Open from 10.30 to 12.30. Contact Mrs. Christina Everett on telephone 01647 221302 for further details.

Wednesday 16th March 7.30 to 9.30 pm 'Around Britain in 80 minutes' at Bovey Tracey. A short AGM followed by a series of members' slide presentations illustrating their experiences of encountering the wildlife of the British Isles at the RC Church Hall in Ashburton Road, Bovey Tracey. Organised by Bovey Tracey DWT Local Group. Or see more on the DWT website.

Wednesday 16th March 7.30pm at Scorriton Village Hall. MED Theatre will be touring their annual community play, No Access. No Access is a contemporary comedy about conflict over land-use on Dartmoor. A story about a rural community who have differing reactions when the nature of an area of land, which is important to each of them in a variety of ways, changes. Tickets cost £7 for adults (£6 concessions) and £3.50 for under 18s. For more information on how to book tickets, please contact MED Theatre on 01647 441356, email or see the MED Theatre website.

Wednesday 16th March Come and join in with our pub quiz at The Kestor Inn at Manaton. We start the quiz at 8pm. Nothing too highbrow. More fun than frustration. Our postcode to find us in your sat nav is TQ13 9UF and the phone number should you need it is 01647 221626

Thursday 17th March Starting at 9am to 1pm Buckfastleigh Farmers Market at the Town Hall, every Thursday near the Globe Inn, in the town Centre. Buy local vegetables, plants, flowers, meat and other produce from local Dartmoor suppliers. Refreshments available throughout the morning.

Thursday 17th March 7.30pm at Princetown Primary School. MED Theatre will be touring their annual community play, No Access. No Access is a contemporary comedy about conflict over land-use on Dartmoor. A story about a rural community who have differing reactions when the nature of an area of land, which is important to each of them in a variety of ways, changes. Tickets cost £7 for adults (£6 concessions) and £3.50 for under 18s. For more information on how to book tickets, please contact MED Theatre on 01647 441356, email or see the MED Theatre website.

Friday 18th March Colourful flea market at Chagford. Grand little market at Chagford up to 1 o'clock. Full of interesting 'stuff', home made cakes, second hand goods and local traders in the Jubilee Hall next to the car park. Refreshments available. More info on the Flea Market website

From Friday 18th March to Saturday 19th March 7.30pm Sat then 2.30 & 7.30pm Sun at Moretonhampstead Parish Hall. MED Theatre will be touring their annual community play, No Access. A contemporary comedy about conflict over land-use on Dartmoor. A story about a rural community who have differing reactions when the nature of an area of land, which is important to each of them in a variety of ways, changes. Tickets cost £7 for adults (£6 concessions) and £3.50 for under 18s. For more information on how to book tickets, please contact MED Theatre on 01647 441356, email or see the MED Theatre website.

Thursday 24th March Starting at 9am to 1pm Buckfastleigh Farmers Market at the Town Hall, every Thursday near the Globe Inn, in the town Centre. Buy local vegetables, plants, flowers, meat and other produce from local Dartmoor suppliers. Refreshments available throughout the morning.

Friday 25th March Colourful flea market at Chagford. Grand little market at Chagford up to 1 o'clock. Full of interesting 'stuff', home made cakes, second hand goods and local traders in the Jubilee Hall next to the car park. Refreshments available. More info on the Flea Market website

From Friday 25th March to Saturday 26th March 10:00am - 4:30pm. Spring Quilt Festival, Exeter. Westpoint Exhibition Centre, Exeter, Devon, EX5 1DJ. There will be a large display of quilts from all over the world. Patchwork and many quilting suppliers stands. With many quilting enthusiasts and personalities on hand to show you how to do it. Link

Friday 25th March C H A R I T Y G I G in aid of Help for Heroes and Devon Air Ambulance with the Johnny Fuller Band PLUS Levi Moretons Lite at the Jubilee Hall, Chagford. Doors open 8.30 until Midnight. Tickets are £7 on the door. Fully Licenced Bar running.

Saturday 26th March from 10 to 4pm . Come along to the South West Alpine Flower Show. The Alpine Garden Society Exeter Group will be holding a National flower show with hundreds of alpines and rock plants, at St Lukes High School in Hart's Lane, off Hill Barton Road, Exeter EX1 3RD on the Pinhoe road, next to Sainsbury's. Admission £2.00 (AGS members free). There will be 13 nursery stands, refreshments plus free parking. And this year, a stall selling new and secondhand books. Please e-mail Mr. Stuckey with any enquiries.

Saturday 26th March From 10 ’til 12 noon. A produce market at Whiddon Down with fresh poultry, plants, fresh fish, chees and home baked cakes. Locally made jewellery, cards, wooden items, and refreshments including delicious bacon rolls. Organiser Mr. Patrick Sullivan can be contacted on 01647 231411.

Saturday 26th March Two films will be on show in Chagford today. The first one will be starting at 5.30pm. in the Jubilee Hall. Come along to see the Chagford Premiere and DVD release of Peerifool, a thrilling fairy tale from the Orkneys with a gutsy little heroine where three little girls outwit an ogre. A 40 min film by the Chagford Filmmaking Group with local children. Tickets from Sallys Newsagent, online or on the door £5 for adults. Children under 16 are invited in for free. See the Fairy Tale Films website. Later on in the day at 7.30 pm COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR. A classic British silent film directed by Anthony Asquith with live harp accompaniment performed by Elizabeth-Jane Baldry. Tickets £8. Please note this film is not suitable for children.

Sunday 27th March 11.00 am UK Premiér of SIR LANVAL. At the Exeter Picturehouse cinema. Adults £8. Children £5.50. A first feature film from the Chagford Filmmaking Group set on Dartmoor and in Brittany, about a knight from King Arthur's Court who falls in love with a fairy. Tickets on sale from Sally's Newsagents in Chagford or online at the Fairy Tale Films website

Monday 28th March Eyes down for a Bingo lunch from 12 noon at The Bullers Arms in Chagford. Have a spot of lunch, a cup of tea or coffee and a game of bingo all for under £7.

Thursday 31st March Starting at 9am to 1pm Buckfastleigh Farmers Market at the Town Hall, every Thursday near the Globe Inn, in the town Centre. Buy local vegetables, plants, flowers, meat and other produce from local Dartmoor suppliers. Refreshments available throughout the morning.