In response to the PM’s announcement on Monday regarding Coronavirus, we’re taking measures in order to follow the latest Government guidance.

Torbay Coast & Countryside Trust confirm there will be no Occombe Festival in 2020.

Torbay Coast & Countryside Trust (TCCT) are delighted to announce that their regeneration plan for Occombe Farm is set for approval!

Torbay Coast & Countryside Trust are delighted to announce that the Cockington Memorial Rose Garden has just been awarded outstanding recognition in the 2019 Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Britain in Bloom and South West in Bloom Annual Awards.

Torbay Coast & Countryside Trust (TCCT) will regrettably terminate permissive vehicle access to a popular fishing spot at Berry Head from 1st November.

Torbay Coast & Countryside Trust (TCCT) is thrilled to unveil plans for an exciting all-weather visitor destination at Occombe Farm.

A record number of parks and green spaces collected a Keep Britain Tidy Green Flag Award last week and Torbay Coast & Countryside Trust (TCCT) are delighted to announce that Cockington Country Park, Torquay, was one of them! Not only is the country park recognised by the Green Flag Award Scheme as one of the […]

Local community group, the Friends of Grove Woods at Churston, were thrilled to receive a large contribution from the National Lottery Community Fund recently. The group, awarded a whopping £9,950 towards their Grove Woods Revival

Plans for the Enchanted Occombe Mystery, our half term discovery trail, are well under way. You will see a different route than usual as we follow the paths around the orchard, through the animal paddocks and along a small section of the woodland nature trail. This is a slight adjustment to the usual route as […]

Local Torbay resident, Kathryn was delighted to learn of her big prize win recently in the Cockington Green Heart Appeal Annual Raffle. Lucky Kathryn, of Paignton, has scooped the top prize, a whopping £1,000, in the annual draw and visited the Farm to meet some of the team, last week. Kathryn said, “I was really […]

On Monday 22 October, our farm team at Cockington were alarmed to discover that a dog had attacked one of our sheep that resides there. The attack happened at Lady Park behind Cockington Court during the day on Monday. The sheep is now suffering a great deal of pain and distress and may have to […]

Accessibility really does matter – and that was proved when a local project working with Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust (TCCT) to open up Cockington for disabled and deaf people, were told it had won a National Lottery Award for Heritage. Heritage Ability beat over 700 other projects, voted for by the public, to make […]

Following the successful introduction of Hebridean sheep into our headland flock of soay’s at the beginning of this year, the now larger, mixed flock will soon be heading to graze in the North Fort at Berry Head National Nature Reserve (NNR). It is expected they will arrive over this coming week; check the gates for signs saying ‘We’re here!’. Both […]

Torbay Coast & Countryside Trust’s popular annual dog day is returning to the country park on Sunday 19th August 2018 This fun canine event, now in its third year, is a celebration of all the park’s doggie visitors with a fun dog show and lots of specialist pet organisations and companies offering demonstrations, stalls, advice […]

This week, a record number of parks and green spaces collected a Keep Britain Tidy Green Flag Award. Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust are delighted to announce that Cockington Country Park, Torquay, has been recognised by the Green Flag Award Scheme as one of the very best in the world. Cockington joins 16 other green […]