Dartmoor

Dartmoor is a region of Devon best known for Dartmoor National Park. The broader Dartmoor region in and around the park includes several towns and villages.

Towns and villages

Towns

• 1 Ashburton — the largest town in the park.
• 2 Bovey Tracey — to the east of Dartmoor. Prehistoric remains visible all round the roads.
• 3 Buckfastleigh — a small market town with Buckfast Abbey.
• 4 Moretonhampstead — a market town on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor.
• 5 Okehampton — to the north of Dartmoor by the A30.
• 6 Tavistock — to the west of Dartmoor with the Tamar Valley AONB on to its south and west.

Villages

• 7 Buckland in the Moor — a wooded area with an unusual church clock in the village, which has 'My dear mother' in place of the numbers 1-12. Ten commandments are to be found in stone on nearby Buckland Beacon (very eroded).
• 8 Chagford — a village deep in the moor.
• 9 Cornwood — a southern Dartmoor village.
• 10 Drewsteignton — on the north-east of the moor with a great old pub, the Drewe Arms.
• 11 Harford — a tiny village with a picturesque bridge and church near Cornwood.
• 12 Haytor Vale — near some very striking tors.
• 13 Lustleigh
• 14 Lydford — a village (which was a town) north of Tavistock with a spectacular limestone gorge and a castle that was once used as the stannary prison.
• 15 Mary Tavy — a pleasant moorland village north of Tavistock that generally gets less crowded than many areas but the walks are as good.
• 16 Meavy — village green and ancient oak tree.
• 17 Peter Tavy — as Mary Tavy above.
• 18 Princetown — a village on the high moor that grew next to the prison whose land was gifted by the Prince of Wales.
• 19 Shaugh Prior — village with granite church and old china clay pits all around.
• 20 Sheepstor — the tor is very shapely and immediately above the village, which has the tomb of James Brooke, white rajah of Sarawak.
• 21 Widecombe in the Moor — though best known for its song, it's worth seeing for its large church (sometimes known as 'the cathedral of the moor.' Good pubs.

Other destinations

• 1 Dartmoor National Park

Go next

• Exeter to the east
• North Devon
• The English Riviera and South Devon