Two young ospreys have made a final stopover on the Otter Estuary in East Devon on their way to wintering grounds in Africa – almost exactly a year after a pioneering restoration project reconnected the River Otter to its flood plain.
Clinton Devon Estates are delighted to announce we were recently successful in a bid to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to secure funding for a 2-year Landscape Recovery development project.
The life of the late Lord Clinton, one of Devon’s most important landowners, was celebrated at Exeter Cathedral on Monday (July 15 2024) in a moving and uplifting memorial service attended by around 1,000 people.
An ambitious landscape-scale project to improve the environment for wildlife and for people has been launched by Clinton Devon Estates after a successful bid for Government funding. Kirstie Ellis has been appointed as Project Manager for “Heaths to Sea: Landscape recovery of the Lower Otter Valley”. Kirstie will lead the two-year development phase of the…
Gerard, Lord Clinton, farmer and landowner, died peacefully at home in East Devon on April 2, 2024, aged 89, survived by Nicola (always known as Nicky), to whom he had been devotedly married for sixty-four years.
A team of six dedicated cyclists from Clinton Devon Estates are ready to get back in the saddle for the 2023 Nello Cycle Challenge. Taking place on Sunday 25 June, their goal is to raise funds for FORCE – Friends of the Oncology and Radiotherapy Centre, Exeter, a local cancer charity. The Nello, a prominent…
As part of LEAF Open Farm Sunday, Clinton Devon Estate’s Otter Farm recently welcomed over 230 enthusiastic visitors, and we couldn’t have been more delighted. The farm team, volunteers, and even our beloved cows were thrilled by the turnout. This day was not only about showcasing our farm, but it also presented a unique opportunity…
Clinton Devon Estates has selected a thriving organic meat farming business as the new tenants for Dalditch Farm, which stretches across 237 acres of stunning countryside between the Jurassic Coast at Budleigh Salterton and the Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve. Dalditch Farm was for many years a successful dairy farm managed by the Estate’s own…
Ten years after becoming the first business to move into Clinton Devon Estates’ Liverton 2 Business Park, Bradfords Building Supplies has opened its first purpose-built plumbing and heating branch in the newly constructed Hayes Units.
Clinton Devon Estates’ Head of Property and Land, Leigh Rix, has announced his retirement from the role at the end of this year. Since joining the 25,000-acre Estate in 2010 from his previous career with the National Trust, Leigh, who will be 65 in January, has overseen the planning and development of new homes and…