Explore North Devon

North Devon

Explore North Devon began in 2006 as an Archives 4 All project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund with additional funding from Natural England through the North Devon Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Our project partners are the North Devon Record Office, North Devon and Torridge museums service, North Devon Theatres Trust, the Northern Devon Coast & Countryside Service and The National Archives. Our aim is to work with community groups in the northern Devon area to develop their collections of local history information, encourage the participation of residents in contributing new material and digitise the resulting data to populate a web-based resource linked to the national Access to Archives (A2A) programme.Community events, volunteering, training opportunities, heritage trails and classroom resources are among the benefits that the project will generate.

We have now reached the conclusion of the Archives 4 All phase of the project and we now have an ever increasing range of fascinating images, stories and heritage trails from around our region on view on our website. We are very pleased to report that additional funding for a new phase of Explore North Devon has been awarded by Devon County Council as part of its culture development programme for 2008/09. This will enable us to extend our community archives work to many more parishes in the northern Devon area, as well as developing our existing projects further.