Woodbine Cottage in West Street has, over the years, been a working dairy as well as a home. It was connected to Delamore, the house on Forder Lane, and called Woodbine Dairy and Delamore Dairy at different times.

This beautiful caterpillar, photographed locally by Marilyn Hepworth in her garden, is the larva or child stage of the Privet Hawk-moth (or Sphinx ligustri). It was seen feeding on her lilac, although as its name suggests, the caterpillar is very fond of privet.

The fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) is native to the UK and one of the most easily recognisable fungi in the world,

This common fungus (Coprinus comatus) is the shaggy mane or shaggy ink cap, sometimes called the ‘lawyer’s wig’.

One of the most common of the 650 species of spider found in the UK, known to most as the Garden Spider or Garden Cross Spider

At the 2025 village festival Year 4 pupils of Bishopsteignton Primary School enjoyed two scrapbooking workshops to highlight their favourite areas of the village and how they might change in forty years time.