SIMONSBATH Festival continues this weekend with three events – two talks and a walk.

Richard McLaughlin will tell of experiment and tragedy on Exmoor, show a 1942 film of secret test firing and will include eye-witness accounts of front-line rocket operations.

One of the rockets will be on display during the talk at 7.30pm on Friday at St Luke’s Church.

The second talk, at the same time and place on Saturday, is by Jonathan Edmunds who will speak about ‘Lorna Doone and the novelist R D Blackmore: 150 years on’.

The talk is illustrated with pictures of the Doone Valley and the people, landscape and buildings made famous by the novel.

On Saturday morning, at 10am, the Exmoor Society has arranged a walk starting from Alderman’s Barrow.

Walkers will see evidence of the Neolithic, Bronze, Medieval and Victorian ages. They will hear about the Knight family, who tried to farm the moor, and see evidence of American Forces training prior to D-Day.     

The Exmoor Society event is free, events at St Luke’s Church are £15 reserved seating, £10 unreserved, with a light supper available for £5 booked in advance via the Simonsbath Festival website or phone 01643 831451.