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This year’s Heritage Open Days already offers a special opportunity to discover more about the Rediscovering Tavistock Abbey project with the guided walk on September 17th Rediscovering Tavistock Abbey: From Abbey to Guildhall but after negotiations with both Le Page architects and and the conservation team at DBR we can now confirm an exciting addition which makes this one of the most unusual events in the programme. Participants will have the opportunity to go onto the sca

\ When people think of Tavistock's history, they often picture the Abbey ruins, the Dukes of Bedford, the canal or the great mining era. Yet the story of Tavistock begins much earlier. This year's Heritage Open Days opens with two remarkable talks that transport audiences back more than a thousand years to the Anglo-Saxon world, revealing how a powerful Devon family helped shape not only Tavistock, but England itself. These opening lectures by historian John Fletcher and Dr G

After months of careful planning, surveys and preparation, a major milestone has been reached in the Rediscovering Tavistock Abbey Project with the start of conservation work on Betsy Grimbal's Tower. The first day on site marked the beginning of the physical restoration of one of Tavistock's most recognisable medieval landmarks. For the first time in generations, skilled conservation masons from specialist contractors DBR Ltd began work on the tower, carefully preserving the