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Forging Ahead
Devon Life
|August 2017
A 300 year old forge on Dartmoor has been restored to its former glory and is back in business. SHARON GOBLE went to Widecombe to meet farrier Nick Rule
MOST people who buy and restore a historic building are happy to uncover an original fireplace or some old beams, but when Nick Rule took on the Old Forge at Widecombe in-the-Moor he discovered something far more unusual buried in the floor. It turned out to be an incredibly useful find - a blacksmith’s swage block (a multi-purpose metal-working tool similar to an anvil).
“I’d always dreamt of having an old blacksmith’s forge,” Nick tells me. “Traditional smithies like this one are few and far between. When I moved to Devon six years ago and the children started going to Widecombe school, I knew this building used to be a forge but all the windows were boarded up. Then I happened to be driving past one day and saw a ‘For Sale’ sign.”
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