Book of North Tawton
/0 Comments/by Town ClerkThe Tarka Trail
/by Town ClerkThe Tarka Trail, is 180 miles long, and follows in the footsteps of the character Tarka the Otter from Henry Williamson’s famous novel and passes through North Tawton. Highlights of the trail include the footbridge over Bailey’s Ford which allows close up views of the river Taw, walking along the river bank on the Tarka Trail for over a mile.
Walking conditions vary from tarmac, country lanes, muddy footpaths and grassy fields. Appropriate footwear is essential for this walk due to muddy sections after rain.
The official website of the Tarka Trail Route has extensive information on how to plan a visit to walk this beautiful trail.
North Tawton
/by Town ClerkNorth Tawton is a small market town located right in the heart of the Devonshire countryside and situated alongside the River Taw from which it takes its name.
Dartmoor, only a few miles away, provides a dramatic backdrop to an ancient settlement whose history began before the Romans established a fortification and continued through the heyday of the wool trade to which the town owes its early prosperity. Although agriculture has played an important part in shaping the history of the town, it also enjoyed a long industrial tradition.
Today North Tawton is a busy town – facilities include a Primary School, Town Hall, and Youth and Community Centre. The Council is responsible for our beautiful Memorial Park with extensive play equipment for different ages, a MUGA, a pump track for cycles and scooters, and football kickabout area.
The Council also owns and maintains a small car park adjacent to the Memorial Park, as well as a larger town centre car park tucked away behind our office in The Square.
There are two churches and a chapel in the town.
We have a GP surgery, two dental practices, and a veterinary surgery as well as a Post Office, a hairdressers, and a barbers. There are three pubs within the town and one just outside, and a café in the town centre, as well as a fish & chip shop and a kebab/pizza house. Lloyds Mobile Bank visits fortnightly.
Shops include a chemist and a Spar supermarket.
The Town Council took over ownership and maintains the Public Conveniences. The mobile library services visits North Tawton every alternate Friday and Saturday.
A boundary map of the Parish of North Tawton can be viewed here – north tawton parish boundary
Welcome to North Tawton Town Council
/by Town Clerk
Welcome to the new North Tawton Town Council website.
The idea is for this to become your convenient point of reference for all that’s going on at the Town Council.
One of the main purposes for this site is to publicise the work of the Town Council with the aim of encouraging involvement and therefore local democracy. Town and Parish Councils are the grass-roots of local government, they are local authorities and although they have limited number of statutory duties they do have wide powers.
Please get involved in the Town, if we all work together it will be a better place for us to live and raise our children and grandchildren.
We hope that you will find this website useful and interesting. If you have any suggestions for additional information or links that should be included on the site, or need to contact us for any other reason, you can phone or email as follows:
Email:
Telephone: 01837 880121 – if there is no reply please leave an answerphone message and we will respond.
The Town Council consists 12 elected or co-opted members. The Chairman is elected annually by Councillors. Please see the attachment below, Councillors List, for a list of Councillors, the Chair and Vice Chair of the Council, and the Committee Structure.
Councillors need to register their Disclosable Pecuniary Interests in Part I of the Register and other interests in Part 2 of the Register. The Register can be viewed below, “Register of Interests”.
Agendas and Minutes 2019 – please go to the link on the left of this page under ‘Most Read’ to see all agendas and minutes for 2019.
Annual Governance Statement 2017-18
Accounting Statements 2017-18
Dates of the period for the exercise of Public Rights
Annual Audit 2016/17
Certified Annual Return – year 2016/17 year ended 31 March 2017
Notice of commencement of the period for the exercise of public rights
Internal Auditors Report 2016/17
Annual Audit 2015/16
Annual Accounts for year 2015/16
Asset Register for year 2016/17015/16
