This is the website of the Friends of Manning's Pit Group, which is running the "Save Manning's Pit" campaign.
Help us save these much loved fields in Pilton, Barnstaple, North Devon from development.

The Planning Application

and (below)

our response to the Planning Application

Ecological Report

Landscape Assessment

Highways and Transport

Manning's Pit Blog for latest news

Important message:
damage to gate by Shearford Lane

The Campaign - updates from the start back
in 2015 until the present

General Election 2017

Maps/plans/more
about the location

Supporters write
about Manning's Pit

Sign our online petition at this link:
bit.ly/manningspit

Nearly 3000 people have signed already, including environmental scientist and inventor James Lovelock, former Director of Friends of the Earth, Jonathon Porrit, former North Devon MP and Minister in the last government, Sir Nick Harvey, North Devon MP from 2015-2017, Peter Heaton-Jones, former UKIP Party Chairman Steve Crowther, wildllife artist and naturalist, Trevor Beer, MBE, Endymion Beer, and Welsh landscape artists David Bellamy and Jenny Keal

The Battle of Manning's Pit

This new film by Martin Kemp shows cousins Brian and John Norman reciting Brian's poem
about an event that took place in Manning's Pit when they were children.

Manning's Pit and messages of support from around the world,
including China, Australia, the Falklands and the Arctic!
Zoom in for Manning's Pit itself, and Pilton posters and signs.

A page of posters

The Friends of Manning's Pit