Dartington is a village in

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, England. Its population is 876. The

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of ''Dartington'' includes the surrounding area and had a population of 1,753 at the 2011 census. It is located to the west of the River Dart, south of Dartington Hall and approximately two miles (3 km) north-west of

Totnes Totnes ( or ) is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is about west of Paignton, about west-southwest of Torquay and ab ...

. Dartington is home to an obsolete cider press (now the centrepiece of a

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named after it), the Cott Inn, a

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dating from 1320, and Dartington Hall. In 1952, Dartington provided the venue for a major conference in the British studio pottery movement, organized by Muriel Rose, a leading arbiter of British crafts and design. The Dartington Conference drew major ceramic artists of the twentieth century including Bernard Leach and Michael Cardew, and, from Japan, Shoji Hamada and Soetsu Yanagi, whose participation signaled the restoration of post-World War II British-Japanese relations.

Education

* Dartington International Summer School 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 Dartington Hall open between 1926 and 1987 *

Schumacher College Schumacher College was based on the Dartington Hall estate near Totnes, Devon, England, and offered ecology-centred degree programmes, short courses and horticultural programmes from 1991 until 2024. It was attended by students from all over t ...

* Dartington Primary School, a state

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school. *Bidwell Brook School Dartington Church

Notable people

* Robert Froude (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

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. *

William Froude William Froude (; 28 November 1810 – 4 May 1879) was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (such as the hull speed equation) and for ...

(1810–1879), an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. * James Anthony Froude FRSE (1818–1894), an English historian, novelist, biographer and editor of ''

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.'' * Leonard Knight Elmhirst FRSA (1893–1974), philanthropist and agronomist, co-founded the Dartington Hall project. * David Gawen Champernowne (1912–2000), economist and mathematician, family seat at Dartington Hall.

References

External links

The Dartington Hall TrustDartington Parish CouncilThe Social Research Unit at DartingtonBidwell Brook School
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