The village is now receiving 3G coverage through Vodafone’s Rural Open Sure Signal (ROSS) programme. Thorverton joins many other Devon communities – Chillaton, Lifton, Bridgerule, Postbridge and Newton St Cyres – on the nationwide initiative to provide mobile access to areas which traditional coverage struggles to reach.

The scheme is now supporting more than 4,700 customer sessions a day.

Launched in July 2014, the ROSS programme uses small ‘femtocell’ boxes which are placed on buildings throughout rural communities. 84 communities are now live across the country from the Shetland Islands to Cornwall and from the mountains of Snowdonia to the Norfolk coast. …”