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Beaford Arts was established in 1966 by the Dartington Hall Trust as The Beaford Centre to promote and support the arts in rural north Devon - an area of 799 square miles bounded by Dartmoor, Exmoor, and the Atlantic west coast.
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Beaford Arts is England's oldest rural arts organisation, based at Greenwarren House in the village of Beaford in North Devon. It has been involved in a number of arts projects including James Ravilious's work to create the Beaford Archive. This collection of 80,000 black-and-white photographs taken over seventeen years "forms a unique exploration of the society, culture, geography and economy of a 'corner of England'". The Beaford Archive also includes 10,000 older images of north Devon, mainly taken between 1880 and 1920, collected by Ravilious from his subjects during his work. It is currently stored in secure conditions in the North Devon Record Office.
Beaford Arts' present functions are:
For ten years from 1992 the Beaford Centre ran The Plough arts centre in Torrington. Since 2002, however, they have been independent organisations.