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Interested in ‘Gardening for Wildlife?’ Sign up for our online talk on making your garden more habitable for wildlife on Thursday 25th February at 6:30pm. Cost £3.50 with Axminster [...]

If you haven’t already, check out this great article on the Heritage Centre by Axminster Nub News including a podcast featuring our very own volunteer David Knapman, author of [...]

On this day in history in 1860 Axminster Railway Station opened, officially linking the town up to Exeter as part of the London and South Western Railway’s (LSWR) main line between London [...]

WHAT DO THESE TWO BUILDINGS IN AXMINSTER AND OTTERY ST. MARY HAVE IN COMMON?  Image: Axminster Heritage Centre Image courtesy of Sands of Time Consultancy ANSWER:  Bidwell Brothers.   In [...]

Just as we went into lock-down all those weeks ago, Axminster Heritage Centre was preparing to launch a new history of the town, written by one of our volunteers, David Knapman. It’s called [...]

  Quite apart from its health impacts, Covid-19 is dramatically re-shaping the social and economic components of our lives. Now is the time to record these changes, because when restrictions [...]

Exactly one week ago today on Saturday 4 April, Axminster Heritage Centre was due to begin its summer season. This Easter weekend was going to be the start of a range of awesome activities we had [...]

It has now been a week since we announced the closure of Axminster Heritage Centre. A lot has happened and we are now looking for ways to keep entertained during the enforced social distancing [...]

There was a party atmosphere in the centre of Axminster for the opening celebrations of the new Axminster Heritage Centre. Several hundred visitors enjoyed their first exploration of the extended [...]

Axminster will soon have a new, modern Heritage Centre attraction designed to appeal to residents and tourist visitors of all ages. After several years of planning and fund raising, the final [...]