Bovey Tracey

In the Dartmoor-edge town of Bovey Tracey, near Newton Abbot, Alcoholics Anonymous meets on Wednesday evenings at the Methodist Church Hall on Fore Street. The meeting starts at 7.30pm and runs for an hour and a half, and the hall is wheelchair accessible. It is an open meeting, which means everyone is welcome: people questioning their own drinking, husbands, wives, parents and friends, and professionals who want to see how AA works in practice. Rural Devon does not have a meeting on every corner, so a solid weekly meeting like this one serves a wide area. Nobody pays, nobody books, and nobody has to say anything at all on their first visit if they would rather just listen.