Dartington
From Wikishire
| Dartington | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 The Cott Inn, Dartington | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX787626 |
| Location: | 50°27’4"N, 3°42’36"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 876 (2011) |
| Post town: | Totnes |
| Postcode: | TQ9 |
| Dialling code: | 01803 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Hams |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Totnes |
Dartington is a village in southern Devon, with a recorded population of 876 in 2011.
The village is to be found west of the River Dart, south of Dartington Hall and about two miles from Totnes. There is a shopping centre in the village of which the centrepiece Dartington is an obsolete cider press: hence the shopping centre is known as the 'Cider Press Centre'.[1]
The Cott Inn in the village is a public house dating from 1320. The other main sight of the village is Dartington Hall.
Parish church
The parish church is St Mary's, which is part of a team ministry with St Barnabas, Brooking.[2]
Education
- Dartington International Summer School of music, every summer since 1953
- Dartington College of Arts, which was founded in 1961 and moved to Falmouth in 2008.
- Schumacher College
- Dartington Primary School, a state Church of England school.[3]
- Bidwell Brook School
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Dartington) |
- The Dartington Hall Trust
- Dartington Parish Council
- Devon CC: Dartington
- The Social Research Unit at Dartington
- Dartington in 1868
- Bidwell Brook School
References
- ↑ "Dartington Cider Press Centre". Dartington Trading Company. Archived from the original on 26 August 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080826060535/http://www.dartington.org/cider-press-centre.@
- ↑ St Mary's, Dartington
- ↑ "Dartington Primary School". Archived from the original on 14 September 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080914005844/http://www.dartington.devon.sch.uk/school_site/school_site.html.
