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Village Festival and Carnivals

The next village festival will take place in 2022 with fundraising events planned for 2021 if circumstances allow. Before our present biennial festival the residents of Bishopsteignton put on some amazing carnivals over many years and there is a lot of photographic evidence in the archive and in villagers’ photo collections.

We are hoping that residents with memories or photos of the past carnival processions will be tempted to join in this project and help us tell the story of this great village tradition. If you have had any involvement with the festivals or the carnivals, please do join us in our attempt to bring these occasions alive again on the website.

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The Bishopsteignton Village Show 1995-2020

2020 marks the 25th year anniversary of The Bishopsteignton Village Show.  However, due to the current COVID circumstances many village celebrations have been put on hold until next year.  This article celebrates the history of the Village Show since 1995 until the current day and has been written primarily from the minutes of meetings that took place over the years and looking through the archives for newspaper articles and artefacts.

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Bishopsteignton Bombers – The Lancaster Past and Present

As part of our WWII commemorations this year Bishopsteignton had scheduled a talk by Richard Gibby to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of The Battle of Britain. Due to the restrictions on meetings we decided to use the innovative platform of Zoom to deliver the talk so that it could appear on the website. It tells of the Lancaster Bomber and its connections to one particular RAF casualty who came from Bishopsteignton.[1] Watch it below.

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Week Twenty-Four

Bishopsteignton Lockdown Diary

This week’s Coronavirus related news. Lockdown measures being increased by the Government in the face of the returning numbers of covid 19 cases.

Thoughts and feelings of the village as it faced the twenty-third, and looks forward to the twenty-fourth week since lockdown was announced. Logged in visitors can post their comments below.

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Week Twenty-One

Bishopsteignton Lockdown Diary

This week’s Coronavirus related news. Lockdown measures being both eased and increased by the Government.

Thoughts and feelings of the village as it faced the twentieth, and looks forward to the twenty-first week since lockdown was announced. Logged in visitors can post their comments below.

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Week Twenty

Bishopsteignton Lockdown Diary

This week’s Coronavirus related news. Interesting turn around update from the Government amidst mixed messages.

Thoughts and feelings of the village as it faced the nineteenth, and looks forward to the twentieth week since lockdown was announced. Logged in visitors can post their comments below.

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Week Nineteen

Bishopsteignton Lockdown Diary

This week’s Coronavirus related news. Not much in the way of update from the Government.

Thoughts and feelings of the village as it faced the eighteenth, and looks forward to the nineteenth week since lockdown was announced. Logged in visitors can post their comments below.

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Week Eighteen

Bishopsteignton Lockdown Diary

This week’s news and the most recent Government statement.

Thoughts and feelings of the village as it faced the seventeenth and looks forward to the eighteenth week since lockdown was announced. Logged in visitors can post their comments below.

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Week Seventeen

Bishopsteignton Lockdown Diary

This week’s news and the most recent Government statement.

Thoughts and feelings of the village as it faced the sixteenth and looks forward to the seventeenth week since lockdown was announced. Logged in visitors can post their comments below.

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