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[edit]

Map of Dartmoor

Towns[edit]

• 50.515-3.7561 Ashburton — the largest town in the park.
• 50.5925-3.6992 Bovey Tracey — to the east of Dartmoor. Prehistoric remains visible all round the roads.
• 50.48-3.783 Buckfastleigh — a small market town with Buckfast Abbey.
• 50.66-3.7674 Moretonhampstead — a market town on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor.
• 50.7388-4.00415 Okehampton — to the north of Dartmoor by the A30.
• 50.545-4.156 Tavistock — to the west of Dartmoor with the Tamar Valley AONB on to its south and west.

Villages[edit]

• 50.544-3.8067 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).
• 50.6728-3.84048 Chagford — a village deep in the moor.
• 50.4202-3.96359 Cornwood — a southern Dartmoor village.
• 50.704-3.7910 Drewsteignton — on the north-east of the moor with a great old pub, the Drewe Arms.
• 50.4192-3.91811 Harford — a tiny village with a picturesque bridge and church near Cornwood.
• 50.5818-3.737312 Haytor Vale — near some very striking tors.
• 50.61779-3.7202213 Lustleigh
• 50.645-4.10514 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.
• 50.596-4.116915 Mary Tavy — a pleasant moorland village north of Tavistock that generally gets less crowded than many areas but the walks are as good.
• 50.4862-4.057716 Meavy — village green and ancient oak tree.
• 50.5787-4.100117 Peter Tavy — as Mary Tavy above.
• 50.5451-3.994218 Princetown — a village on the high moor that grew next to the prison whose land was gifted by the Prince of Wales.
• 50.4498-4.055419 Shaugh Prior — village with granite church and old china clay pits all around.
• 50.4908-4.0320320 Sheepstor — the tor is very shapely and immediately above the village, which has the tomb of James Brooke, white rajah of Sarawak.
• 50.5767-3.811721 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[edit]

• 50.5719-3.92071 Dartmoor National Park

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