USEFUL LINKS

Owns the Otterhead Estate and leases most of the land to either The Forestry Commission or to The Otterhead Estate Trust.

The Code of Conduct for Visitors to the Otterhead Estate.

The website of Churchstanton Parish Council.

The website of Otterford Parish Council

The Wessex Water Otterhead Estate hosts Otterhead Forest School.

The website of the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The website of a neighbouring parish.

The leading on-line resource dedicated to historic parks and gardens

The part of the Otterhead Estate in the Parish of Otterford including the walled gardens has always been part of Somerset.

The part of the Otterhead Estate in the Parish of Churchstanton including Otterhead House and most of the lost Victorian gardens was in Devon until the county boundary change in 1897.

The website of Exmoor National Park.

Named after Rhododendron hirsutum, the first rhododendron to reach Europe.

Article in French by Yves Tuset with two photographs taken at Otterhead.

The Royal Horticultural Society's Rhododendron, Camellia and Magnolia Group website.

Lost Heritage: England's Lost Country Houses.

Facebook page. The Otterhead Estate Trust is grateful for the TMCV's help over the years most recently in March 2019.

The website of the Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society.

Ilminster and Chard Area Group of the Somerset Wildlife Trust.

BBC Weather Forecast for Otterford, Somerset.

Ottery St. Mary, Devon, Tourist Information Centre website.

The UK's largest and most comprehensive attractions database.

A Somerset Wilderness with Historical Pedigree.

Peace and quiet at Otterhead Lakes or Holford Combe by Julia Ridge, from Somerset Life May 2014.

There is also an Otterhead Estate and Lakes Flickr slideshow; see Home Page.

Can be a slow link; patience needed.

Can be a slow link; patience needed.

Includes Otterford in Snow 18 December 2010 photographs; some are of ice on the Otterhead Lakes.

Arts, History, Science - Places, Events and Exhibitions.

The website of the Churchinford and District Community Shop Project (shop now up and running at new location in village; please check opening hours).

The Honiton Glen Conservation Group (formerly The Friends of the Glen) website. The Glen, Honiton's Silver Jubilee park, includes an almost forgotten Victorian water garden. Another Voice Online Communities Website.

A new facility for East Devon; another Voice website.

The Lewis Lloyds moved to the Otterhead Estate because their home and part of their estate in Radnorshire was to be flooded by Birmingham Corporation's reservoir scheme. Ruins of the house and walled garden walls usually under water.

The website you are now visiting is a Voice Online Communities Website.