Dartington is a village in

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...

, England. Its population is 876. The

electoral ward A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to ...

of ''Dartington'' includes the surrounding area and had a population of 1,753 at the 2011 census. It is located west of the River Dart, south of

Dartington Hall Dartington Hall in Dartington, near Totnes, Devon, England, is an historic house and country estate of dating from medieval times. The group of late 14th century buildings are Grade I listed; described in Pevsner's Buildings of England as "on ...

and about two miles (3 km) north-west of Totnes. Dartington is home to an obsolete

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(now the centrepiece of a

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named after it), the Cott Inn, a

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dating from 1320, and

Education

Dartington International Summer School Dartington International Summer School is a summer school and festival of music held on the medieval estate of Dartington Hall and is a department of the Dartington Trust. Operation First established at Bryanston School in 1948 (largely throu ...

of music, every summer since 1953 *

Dartington College of Arts Dartington College of Arts was a specialist arts college located at Dartington Hall in the south-west of England, offering courses at degree and postgraduate level together with an arts research programme. It existed for a period of almost 50 ...

, which was founded in 1961 and moved to Falmouth in 2008 *Dartington Hall School, a private school located at

between 1926 until it closed in 1987 *

Schumacher College Schumacher College is a college near Totnes, Devon, England which offers ecology-centred degree programmes, short courses and horticultural programmes. The College is internationally renowned for its experiential approach to learning, encouragi ...

Dartington Primary School Dartington is a village in Devon, England. Its population is 876. The electoral ward of ''Dartington'' includes the surrounding area and had a population of 1,753 at the 2011 census. It is located west of the River Dart, south of Dartington H ...

, a state

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school. *Bidwell Brook School Dartington Church

Notable people

Robert Froude Robert Hurrell Froude (1771–1859) was Archdeacon of Totnes in Devon, from 1820 to 1859. From 1799 to his death he was rector of Denbury and of Dartington in Devon. Origins He was born at Wakeham Farm in the parish of Aveton Gifford near Modb ...

(1771–1859), Rector of Denbury and of Dartington from 1799 to his death * Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), Anglican priest and an early leader of the

Oxford Movement The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of ...

. *

William Froude William Froude (; 28 November 1810 in Devon – 4 May 1879 in Simonstown, South Africa) was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (su ...

(1810–1879), an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. * James Anthony Froude FRSE (1818–1894), an English historian, novelist, biographer and editor of '' Fraser's Magazine.'' * Leonard Knight Elmhirst FRSA (1893–1974), philanthropist and agronomist, co-founded the

project. * David Gawen Champernowne (1912–2000), economist and mathematician, family seat at

References

External links

The Dartington Hall TrustDartington Parish CouncilThe Social Research Unit at DartingtonBidwell Brook School
Civil parishes in South Hams Villages in South Hams {{devon-geo-stub