NGS Open Gardens Weekend August 21st/22nd
Opening times are from 10 am to 5 pm. There are plenty of undercover areas and umbrellas in case of rain and it is all looking lovely. Bring a picnic or visit our friendly local, The Royal Oak, in Ideford.
HOW TO FIND US.
Some people have difficulty reaching us, there is a fast one way road system and SATNAV does not work here, so please read the following directions carefully and do not attempt to use small lanes.
Sedgewell Coach House lies about fives miles north of Newton Abbot. The entrance is a turning off the dual carriageway (A380) sign posted OLCHARD.
From EXETER take the A380 southbound and take the SECOND sign for OLCHARD. IMMEDIATELY facing you between stone walls is a private tree-lined tarmac drive. Go down it and after 100 yards fork left onto a gravelled drive. Sedgewell Coach House is at the bottom.
From NEWTON ABBOT take the A380 northbound. After about five miles, at the bottom of a long downhill stretch, take the turnoff signposted Luton, Ideford, Ugbrooke House and Chudleigh.
Take the first right, pass under two bridges then turn right again back onto the A380. Take the first exit signposted OLCHARD.IMMEDIATELY facing you between stone walls is a private tree-lined tarmac drive. Go down it and after 100 yards fork left onto a gravelled drive. Sedgewell Coach House is at the bottom.
OPEN STUDIOS this year are the first three weekends in September from 10am - 5pm; there is loads of new stuff to see and plenty for kids young and old to experience all made from odd bits and pieces.
My latest pair of driftwood horses Resolute and Young Lord are now on exhibition at Torre Abbey until the end of August as part of the TAMED show featuring Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided but will be back for September.
BELINDA SEAWARD IS NOW WRITER IN RESIDENCE HERE! You can see from her eyes that she is a lot of fun and laughs readily.
Belinda started writing when she was twelve. After leaving school, she worked as a journalist on local newspapers and later as a news reporter for newspapers in Bahrain and London, including the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail, where she worked as a foreign correspondent. Her first novel, The Avalanche, a psychological thriller, was published by Constable and won a Society of Authors’ Award. Her second, Hotel Juliet, set in Africa, London and Scotland, published by John Murray, sold in more than six different countries and was submitted for the Booker Prize. She has also written a screenplay and a novel for young adults set in Vienna. She teaches Philosophy and is currently at work on her fourth novel.
From reviews of Hotel Juliet:
‘Africa and aviation, red dust and wide, white skies . . . A thrillingly observant writer and crafter of highly sensual prose, Seaward employs the language and lore of the skies to considerable metaphorical effect . . . its richly descriptive escapism is seductive.’ Daily Mail.
‘Hotel Juliet is a breathtaking work and a deeply moving elegy to the transitory nature of family life.’ Scotland on Sunday.
‘This poignant epic is a real page-turner...a mesmerising, well-crafted novel.’BirminghamEvening Mail.
‘A cinematic novel of breadth and beauty, love and aviation. Superbly written, the author’s descriptions, particularly of masculinity, smells and voodoo are possessed of an almost ineffable resonance.’ The Brighton Argus.
'A gripping evocation of love and passion amid the wild African landscape.' Sainsbury's Magazine.
‘Hotel Juliet very quietly binds a spell on the reader and I found it unusual and absorbing.’ Shropshire Star