Hartland Parish south side particularly hit.

Hartland parish has experienced its severest winter weather since 1947 over the past week or so, indeed, some say the conditions are worse than they were eight years ago. The two-hour fall of snow on the 20th was only the prelude to what was to come on the 23rd.

Mr R Fisher, one of Hartland’s mail van drivers, could only get as far as Dadworthy Hill, one and half miles south of Hartland.

Mr Tom Rowe, who does a cycling post round in the south west corner of the parish, had to give up his round in the late afternoon and had to stay the night at Elmscott.

Three bulldozers worked for four days and four nights to get the roads clear and the last of these was opened on Sunday afternoon. This was between Firebeacon and Lutsford where, according to Mr Sid Goaman, the snow was the worst he had ever experienced.

The full Gazette article is dated 4 March 1955