HOLFORD church, village hall and pub have joined the growing band of dementia-friendly businesses in West Somerset.

Publican Chris Hayes is pictured receiving The Plough Inn’s certificate from Margaret Tatham, leader of Watchet and the Quantocks Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) who ran a session there to explain how the village can become a Dementia Friendly Community. 

It was decided that the pub, the church and village hall should join, with others to follow, with the aim of eventually gaining Dementia Friendly Community status. 

It is another notch in the history of The Plough Inn Holford, which is said to be haunted. It is where the author Virginia Woolf spent her honeymoon – and now it is the first place in Holford to become a member of the DAA.