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We've just announced an exciting spring season of music at the Mill. In what promises to be an outstanding programme of acoustic music, highlights include folk hero Steve Knightley and Mill favourites Rag Mama Rag. Our spring gigs are held in the cosy warmth of the upstairs restaurant.  It's a magical and intimate setting for an exciting musical series featuring ...

Date added: Tuesday 20th December 2011
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Spring's arrival heralds a new era for our Mill building. Having listened intently to customers over the past year, we're making a number of changes to the mix of art, crafts and other products available for retail in our new ‘Mill Shop' . Mill visitors ...

Date added: Wednesday 14th December 2011
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

We bid a sad farewell to our resident jewellers Steve Whitford and Ann Bruford, who will be moving on from their Mill studio in the New Year.  Steve and Ann have been at the heart of the Mill for the past ten years, and we ...

Date added: Monday 21st November 2011
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

East Devon's Otterton Mill was delighted to welcome Hugo Swire last week.   Mr Swire, Conservative MP for East Devon, visited the Mill in a bid to learn more about the challenges faced by small businesses in these difficult times. Mill owners Caroline and Simon Spiller and William ...

Date added: Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

We are delighted to announce that we (Simon and Caroline) have been joined by a new business partner and co-owner at the Mill, William Casely. William brings over 25 years of retail management experience in some of the top retailers in the UK, including a spell ...

Date added: Wednesday 19th October 2011
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Otterton Mill featured in this week's airing of the popular BBC show 'Escape to the Country'. The series of programmes helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the countryside, and visited the Mill during filming last summer. In the Mill episode, Jules Hudson helps ...

Date added: Tuesday 25th January 2011
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Wishing all of our customers a very happy and peaceful New Year!  We're open as normal on New Year's Day, and throughout the holiday period.  We look forward to seeing you soon. ...

Date added: Friday 31st December 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

For its winter exhibition entitled 'The Four Elements', Otterton Mill Gallery has taken an elemental theme, as it showcases Devon artists who either portray or use the four elements to create their art. The theme makes for an interesting and diverse collection of work, from ...

Date added: Sunday 14th November 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

The team at Otterton Mill are celebrating the achievement of another award.  Just weeks after The Guardian called Otterton Mill " The place to hang-out near Budleigh Salterton: a restaurant, café , gallery and music venue extraordinaire ", the Mill's café-restaurant has been awarded Gold by Taste of the West ...

Date added: Sunday 17th October 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Otterton Mill escaped the worst of the flooding yesterday, and is open for business as normal. Although both its carparks flooded, the main site escaped the flood waters by just feet. Mill owners Caroline and Simon Spiller said "We are extremely grateful that the flood waters did ...

Date added: Thursday 18th November 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Radio 2 DJs Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie were treated to a surprise road-side cream tea from Otterton Mill as they walked the South West Coast Path this week, as part of a week-long special broadcast from Dorset and East Devon. Otterton Mill owners Caroline and ...

Date added: Tuesday 28th September 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Give your support to our beautiful neighbouring river, The Otter, in a nationwide survey. The Our Rivers partnership has launched a major search across England and Wales for the best and worst rivers.  They are calling on everyone, from nature lovers and anglers to boaters and ...

Date added: Sunday 19th September 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

As the autumn sun sinks lower in the sky, Otterton Mill Gallery's latest exhibition features six west country artists for whom light is central to their art. This illuminating collection of work features both lamps and lampshades whose function is to convey light, alongside photography ...

Date added: Tuesday 14th September 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Otterton Mill , now widely recognised as the South West's leading roots music venue, has now released tickets for its autumn music season.   As ever, the programme features world-class musicians from the fields of jazz and blues, folk, country, bluegrass, Americana, soul and pop.  All concerts take place ...

Date added: Tuesday 17th August 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

We're delighted to report that our cream teas are selling in record numbers this summer.  It seems our customers can't get enough of them.  We're now producing up to 400 scones a day in our on-site bakery.  And customers are ordering cream teas from 10 ...

Date added: Tuesday 17th August 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

An Archaelogical Finds Day hosted at East Devon's Otterton Mill last Saturday attracted a treasure trove of historical artefacts. Over 170 members of the public arrived throughout the day, many of them carrying box-loads of objects found in their gardens or the local countryside. The most ...

Date added: Wednesday 4th August 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Best-selling children's book author and illustrator Babette Cole is one of the exhibiting artists featured in Otterton Mill Gallery's summer exhibition "Telling Tales". The exhibition showcases seven West Country artists who work with illustration or tell stories through their art. The collection is designed to ...

Date added: Thursday 29th July 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Otterton Mill music audiences can expect a treat with the intimate East Devon venue's two remaining August gigs. Seattle country-soul sensation Rachel Harrington makes a welcome 2nd visit to the Mill on Thursday 12th August, followed by Budleigh-based blues maestro Ian Briggs on Thursday 19th ...

Date added: Wednesday 4th August 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Audiences at East Devon's Otterton Mill enjoyed a thoroughly English evening of outdoor theatre last Saturday, when The Idle Theme Theatre Company performed Oscar Wilde's hilarious play An Ideal Husband to a packed house. The play was performed in the Mill's historic courtyard setting against ...

Date added: Friday 30th July 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

A team of archaeological experts is hoping to find treasure during a special event at Otterton Mill this Saturday, as the East Devon tourist attraction hosts a visit by the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS). Members of the public are invited to bring along any ...

Date added: Tuesday 27th July 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Earlier this year, we invited our customers to submit their photographs of the wildlife and countryside in the Otter Valley.  We received some fantastic entries, and we're now delighted to announce the winner of our competition as Astrida Plenty for her photo of an iconic ...

Date added: Tuesday 13th July 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Otterton Mill's famous Courtyard music series kicks off with a trio of outstanding acts, perfect for summer evenings. On Friday 2nd July, the Mill welcomes the hotly tipped Tipitina. This young threesome play a devastating mix of swing, boogie woogie, jive, blues and gospel, that has ...

Date added: Wednesday 30th June 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Otterton Mill is very pleased to stock The Devon Food Book.  Written by the late Carol Trewin, this wonderful book explores the relationship between the region's landscape and the food on our plates.  Devon produces some of the best food in Britain, from meat to ...

Date added: Wednesday 23rd June 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

The Mill Gallery's summer exhibition, entitled "An Abstract View", showcases a quartet of West Country artists who create abstract art. The exhibition encompasses 2D works, glass and ceramics that, together, make a dynamic statement of an artistic vision. Artists include:  Martin Pettinger , an experimental ceramicist, whose ...

Date added: Monday 7th June 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

The Mill is the perfect venue for your private function, whether it is a casual family party, a wedding reception or a corporate dinner.  And, for confirmed bookings placed before the end of July 2010, we're extending a very special offer of a 50% discount ...

Date added: Tuesday 25th May 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Otterton Mill has just released tickets for its summer music season.  In what promises to be an exciting programme of world-class acoustic music, local heroes Show of Hands top the bill with a special intimate gig in the Mill's unique venue.  The series of summer ...

Date added: Tuesday 25th May 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

The Mill's current Gallery exhibition celebrates the natural world in and around the South West, as it showcases five West Country artists who depict and are inspired by plant-life in its various forms.  The exhibition ties in with the changing of the seasons, as nature ...

Date added: Thursday 29th April 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Otterton Mill's chef and baker will be joining some of the region's top chefs at the Devon County Show on 20th to 22nd May at Westpoint, when they'll be cooking up lots of tempting and good value dishes using local produce. The Mill's Executive Chef, Ed ...

Date added: Wednesday 19th May 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

Otterton Mill will host a medieval-themed event on Sunday 9th May, in collaboration with students of East Devon's Bicton College. The family event, entitled "Posies, Plague and Permaculture" promises medieval mess and mayhem and will be run as a Community Project by a team of ...

Date added: Sunday 2nd May 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012

A portrait of David Beckham, composed of thousands of pieces of bric a brac, is among the eye-catching exhibits in the Mill Gallery's current exhibition.  Entitled "Going Green", the exhibition features west country artists who use recycled objects and materials in their art.  The Beckham ...

Date added: Monday 8th March 2010
Latest updated: Monday 16th January 2012