Staying at the Vicarage

with Jeremy and Clarissa Hummerstone

"4 June 2006

Sermon The Holy Ghost is our advocate, enabling us to bear witness to the Resurrection.

Christine Lovelock Writes During my tour of the many proposed wind farms sites in Devon I stayed at Bradworthy, and am now even more worried about what may happen to Torrington. Since the three turbines were put up at Bradworthy, there is now a proposal for four more, much larger ones (410 ft high) on the other side of the village. There is also one for three more at Crimp, to the west of Bradworthy, with the possibility of a very large wind farm being added to that as a “Crimp extension”. The villagers at Bradworthy now face the possibility of being surrounded by turbines, with all the attendant problems of noise, infrasound, shadow flicker, watercourse damage, etc. Once the Torrington landscape has been degraded with the three turbines at Higher Darracott, we are likely to suffer the same industrialization. Our economy is already fragile and will get worse, as visitors are deterred and the bed & breakfast trade declines. 
   Come to the Plough on Thursday or Friday (8—9 June) to see The Wind Thing, by Henry Lewis, a musical farce about windfarms by a playwright who loves country walking, and hear the debate afterwards between Ricky Knight of the Green (pro-windfarm) Party and John Constable, descendant of the landscape artist. There will be a small exhibition by Artists Against Wind Farms in the meeting room at the Plough (Wednesday 7th—Friday 9th). "

The Vicarage - it was surrounded by scaffolding while I visited as it was being repainted. This Vicarage has been a welcome place for so many people in need over the years, and I hope that this house will always remain as the Vicarage in Torrington.