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Fantastically located on the route down form London – one of the traditional gateways to Devonshire and in past-times a staging post of some importance – you can still see the coaching inns along the old High Street. Honiton nestles in the lee of the Blackdown Hills amongst a countryside that has little changed since 1724 when Daniel Defoe described the view from Honiton as “The most beautiful landscape in the world. A mere picture, and I do not remember the like of it in any one place in England” this is classic English Countryside.
A famous lace-making, pottery, and market town with a vibrant, well-regarded farmers market – and rightly so – Honiton sits on the edge of the agricultural Heart of Devon. Honiton has a national reputation as an antiques centre with over thirty antiques shops and auction rooms. It is also the home of the Honiton Agricultural Show.
One of the old traditions of Honiton that lives on today is that of the Hot Penny Catching Ceremony held in July. The town crier ushers in the celebrations surrounding the town’s annual fair . The strange ceremony entails a golden glove being carried around atop a long garlanded pole. It is said that whilst the golden glove is raised thieves and criminals are immune from prosecution. The town crier announces the beginning of the annual fair, and soon after heated pennies are cast among the onlookers and eagerly gathered by the town’s young people.
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