This small collection of pictures illustrates Landkey's location in a shallow valley about three miles south east of Barnstaple.

People and places of Landkey of yesteryear are brought to life in this collection of old images. They range from pictures of the the Great Frost of 1891 when icicles hung from the village water wheel up to more recent times when the playing field was opened in 1958.

A church was first established in Landkey in the fifth or sixth century by St Kea. It is to this monk from Glastonbury that the village owes its name as well as its Christian roots.

In the summer of 1992, mains gas arrived in the village of Landkey. These pictures record that event.

In July 1989, the new North Devon Link Road opened. This was an event which was eagerly awaited by the residents of Landkey who had suffered years of heavy traffic rumbling through their village. Ever since road traffic came into existence, Landkey had lain on the main route linking Taunton with Barnstaple meaning a daily routine of cars and lorries clogging up its narrow main street. When the first vehicles started travelling on the new road half a mile to the north of the village, all that changed forever.

In the late 1990s, fearing the loss of valuable green space in the village to development, concerned Landkey residents campaigned successfully to have ten acres of former farmland designated as a Millennium Green. Part of the Green was set aside for the planting of an orchard of mazzard cherry trees.

At around 1800, Landkey boasted seven corn mills. They were powered by water and provided ground grain for local farmers. The water wheel which drove Landkey Town mill works to this day, even though the mill itself has fallen into disuse.

Venn Quarry has been a source of stone for road building since 1936. Limestone quarries on the site, however, date as far back as 1708.