Walking with Cameras Photo-walk at Stover Country Park

📅 Friday 1st May | 🕚 Starts at 11:00am 📍 Stover Country Park, Newton Abbot | 🚐 Optional minibus from Exeter

Join us on Fiday 1st May, for a photo-walk around the wonderful Stover Country Park.

Discover one of Devon’s most diverse and inspiring natural spaces on this immersive photo‑walk through Stover Country Park. With its rich mix of landscapes and wildlife, this is the perfect setting to spark your creativity

This Photo-walk will take place on Friday 1st May and it will begin at 11:00am and it will approximately finish around 2:00pm/2:30pm.

We have limited minibus transport from Exeter. Alternatively, you can attend via you own transport and parking is available, howerver there are car park charges - £2.20 for up to 2 hours or £4.40 for any longer period (via cash, card or RingGo). There are no disabled concessions.

Once at the venue, you have a choice of staying close to the group and gaining some photography tips or you can roam free around the park.

Header Image © Lucy Jennison, Mark Reed, Dave Frostick & Clive Chilvers

ACCESSIBILITY

-There are toilets situated near the car park on down the left hand-side of the wooden building (Interpretation Centre) , including facilities for the disabled.

-Many paths within the Country Park are surfaced and level, including the 2km path around Stover Lake.

-Picnic areas are located close to the Interpretation Centre.

-Benches are located around the lake for resting

-The Countryside Mobility Scheme is running at Stover Country park. The scheme aims to improve access to the countryside for people with limited mobility living in and visiting the South West region. To find out more click the link above.

for more information about the park please visit their website where the above information was taken from https://www.devon.gov.uk/stovercountrypark/

ABOUT STOVER COUNTRY PARK

Stover Country Park comprises part of the 80,000-acre estate acquired by James Templer, a Devonian entrepreneur, in the late Eighteenth Century. Templer replaced the old house, Stoford Lodge, and in 1777 built himself a large mansion house in the Palladian style which he named Stover House. He undertook a landscaping scheme to form the gardens of the house, which significantly influenced the appearance of the area.

The Country Park, which covers 114 acres consists of six main habitats types: freshwater, marshland, coniferous plantation, mixed broadleaved woodland, lowland heath and grassland. These habitats are easily accessible from a network of surfaced and un-surfaced paths. Extensive deciduous and coniferous woodland are interspersed with pockets of lowland heath and grassland providing habitats for a range of visiting and resident wildlife. There is a substantial variety of wildlife, notably dragonflies and wildfowl, as well as other bird life, insects and mammals.

The main attraction to the park is the fabulous lake, which is fully assessable to walk around and has plenty of viewing points. It has been in existence for some 230 years and over this period a diversity of species and communities have developed as the lake has matured.

The depth of the lake varies from 0.5 to 1.5 meters and extends to approximately 4.05 hectares (10 acres). This attracts a vast variety of birds to the lake, particularly in winter typically mallard, mute swan, pochard, tufted duck, kingfisher, great crested grebes, heron, cormorant, moorhen and coot. Other wildlife includes dragonflies and a squirrel vantage point.( rarer spots include grass snake swimming in the lake or slithering through the marsh. Otter, mink and water shrew.

Whilst walking along the trail, dotted around are poems by Ted Hughes which have been selected to relate to the nature, for more details about the trail click here

The Country Park was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in 1984 by the Nature Conservancy Council (now English Nature) due to its rare dragonfly species and invertebrates. If you are interested in the history of the park and would like to find out more here

WALKING WITH CAMERAS PROJECT

Walking with Cameras is a two-year project that will provide over 40 innovative photo-walks for people in Exeter and the surrounding regions. This photo-walks programme will provide an alternative means of social interaction, healthy activity, creative engagement, and it will provide participants with the opportunity to visit and photograph a range of inspiring locations for 3-4 hours, where they can create their own images or take part in a photographic tasks.

The locations in this project will be varied, but will include forests and woodlands, wetlands, local urban areas, country parks, country houses and local historical landmarks. This project is open to all adult communities across the City of Exeter and Devon, with a special focus for people who have experienced or are currently experiencing mental health issue, for those in the community who are experiencing social isolation and for people who are affected by a disability or are using a wheelchair.

This project has been funded by The National Lottery Awards for All England Programme and it will enable participants to create their own photo-story, build a portfolio of images and take part in a fun and creative activity.

MERIDIAN RAW CIO - NON DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

We ask everyone who attends our photo-walk to be respectful of each other and the facilitator.

Meridian Raw CIO is committed to ensuring an environment that is free of discrimination and fostering a climate in which all participants may take part and feel safe. We recognise and value our diverse population and we are committed to fair treatment of all participants.

Harassment and disparate treatment based on race, colour, national origin, sex, disability, age, or religion will not be permitted or tolerated.

DISCLAIMER FOR PHOTO WALKS

Everyone who attends this photo-walk does so at their own risk.

Facilitators, venue tour guides & volunteers assume no responsibility for anyone attending any event & will not be held responsible for any accident, injury or loss occurring as a result of any event or in connection with travel to such event, however caused. You indicate that you accept these conditions by attending the photo walk.

Participants are responsible for wearing suitable footwear & clothing for the environment.

Participants are responsible for assessing their own risk, the safety of themselves and the suitability of any equipment used.

Meridian Raw CIO cannot take responsibility for others possessions, or any loss of said possessions, so advise that they are kept with them at all times.

Any Medical Conditions that may affect the participants during the walk should be notified to the walk leader/facilitator prior to the start of the walk.

No dogs are permitted, unless they are a service dog or by arrangement

If taking arranged transport, in the unlikely event an individual does not arrive at the drop off/collection point at a timely manner and said transport leaves without participant,

Meridian Raw CIO cannot take responsibility for individuals' journey to/from the location, so any costs incurred would be the individual's responsibility.

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