Links and Contacts

Perrie Hale Forest Nursery - www.perriehale.com
Suppliers of forest trees and native hedging plants.
Northcote Hill, Honiton, Devon, EX14 8TH
Tel:- 01404 43344, Fax:- 01404 47163

Common Ground - www.commonground.org.uk
A charity promoting environmental conservation and regional distinctiveness. The original instigators of the first 'Apple Day'.

The Royal Horticultural Society - www.rhs.org.uk
A web site with regularly updated information of use to gardeners, including access to the online version of the RHS Plantfinder.

RHS Fruit Group
A group within the organisation, with regional subgroups, that organise lectures and visits throughout the year, on all aspects of fruit growing. Of use to anyone who is interested in growing any type of fruit.
National Secretary.  RHS, 80 Vincent Square, London, SW1P 2PE
South West Secretary.  S Harris, Holme Close, Western Road, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 6DH

Tourist Information Centres
Contact telephone numbers for the towns that are closest to the nursery are listed below. For anyone preferring to stay in a town/city note that Taunton, the county town of Somerset, is only 30 minutes drive from Thornhayes Nursery down the M5, and likewise the cathedral city of Exeter, with its many hotels and eating houses, is also 30 minutes drive from Thornhayes.

Exeter: 01392 265700 tic@exeter.gov.uk
Honiton: 01404 43716 honitontic@btconnect.com
Ottery St Mary: 01404 813964 info@otterytourism.org.uk
Sidmouth: 01395 516441 sidmouthtic@eclipse.co.uk
Taunton: 01823 336334 tauntontic@tauntondeane.gov.uk
Tiverton: 01884 255827 tivertontic@btconnect.com