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A brief history of Bratton Fleming

Part 5: The 20th century till today

During the 20th century Bratton, like almost every community in the country, has lost sons to war. Its location 7 miles from Barnstaple means that some of the more accepted amenities were late arriving – mains electricity did not come to the village until 1954 and mains gas will probably never arrive.

In recent years there have been many new homes built, a new village ‘playground’, the Millennium Green, has taken the place of the old cricket ground (a new sports facility with large clubhouse and permanent cricket and football pitches has been built just outside the village) and shortly a community woodland will join it.

Peter Laurie
With Grateful Acknowledgement to Charles Whybrow and his book “West of Exmoor”