We’d love everyone who is able to create a scarecrow to make this year’s trail even bigger and better than last year. We’re therefore announcing it now to give you time to design your scarecrow and gather items needed to make it.

Theme: This year we have chosen the theme of Book Characters for the scarecrows.  These can be human or non-human and hopefully this gives a good broad choice of recognizable characters to choose from.

How to Make a Scarecrow: If you need hay to stuff your scarecrow or help/advice making a scarecrow, we will be holding a Scarecrow Making Day in the Nicholls Hall in August – Date to be Decide

Prizes: There will be a prize for the best scarecrow (voted for by those who take part in following the scarecrow trail over the bank holiday weekend) and possibly further prizes if we can obtain them.

Costs: £3 to enter a scarecrow into the competition. £1 for a map to do the walk and vote for your favourite scarecrow.

Where should the scarecrows be placed?: Scarecrows should be placed in visible places on or safely near your property, but if you don’t have somewhere to place a scarecrow or live somewhere it won’t be seen by many people, we can place it for you.

When is the trail on?: This year’s trail will be running from Saturday 23^rd to Monday 31^st August and scarecrows can be put out from the 23^rd onwards, but must be in place if you wish to take part in the competition to win the prize for best scarecrow by 9am on Saturday 29^th August.

What to do Right Now:

1. Think about which character(s) you would like make a scarecrow of.
2. Look out for/save items of clothing etc that would be good for making your scarecrow.
3. Save anything that would be good for stuffing your scarecrow with.

Pillowcases: If you’re throwing out any plain old pillow cases, save them for your scarecrow’s head or please pass them on to a member of the hall committee for someone else to use for their scarecrow.

LAST YEAR’S SCARECROW TRAIL WAS FABULOUS. WITH YOUR HELP WE CAN MAKE THIS YEAR EVEN BETTER!

Last year’s event was extremely popular with locals and tourists alike and good sales were made by several of our exhibitors.

This year the event will be open from 11am to 3pm on both days. Artists will need to be available to set up on the Friday afternoon (28^th) and pack down promptly at 3pm on the Sunday. Cost is £10 per exhibitor.

If you live in Lydford or are local to Lydford and would like to apply to take part in the exhibition please email Bekki at bekkihillscbwi@gmail.com.

Places are limited, so please get in touch as soon as possible.

We are pleased to be able to announce that The Vikings, The dog show and the falconry show will all be present again at this years fair. Evening entertainment will be provided by the The Smokin’ Pilchards

Councillors have been asked to take a view on –

Affordable housing in the village, the 20’s Plenty campaign on controlling traffic speeds in the village, the future maintenance of the village playground and the proposed erection of a mast on land at Willsworthy. This is also the time of year when the council must begin to decide on budget priorities for next year.

Councillors are looking to identify ways that life in the village might be improved. Let a Councillor know if you have a suggestion that you’d like the council to act on, or better still – come along to the meeting to voice your thoughts.

Accompanied by the Lydford Village Jumble Trail on Saturday 11am till 3pm

Cream teas and Ice cream available.