For years I had let the ambition of visiting North Devon’s gnome reserve… and then I found it had closed so I marked it up as something I wouldn’t get a chance to do. It turns out though that the gnomes have relocated to a nearby garden centre – Merry Harriers near Woolfardisworthy (Woolsery).

We visited there today in order to pick up some garden compost for my mum and, it turns out, there is no place like gnome!

The gnome reserve isn’t something to approach too seriously but it turns out to be quite a decent garden centre too.