CREDITON'S Old Cider Works is being put back to the use it was built for thanks to its new owners.

Sandford Orchards has bought the building with help from NatWest, and will start making cider there this autumn.

Owner Barny Butterfield said: “It is a purpose-built 1930s cider works and from the 1930s to the 1960s it made some of the best cider in the world. It was an excellent producer of high-quality cider.

“Many of the farmers I buy apples from remember taking their apples to Creedy Valley Cider Company at the works, and it is really exciting to be able to bring the building back into a cider-making environment.”