Dartington is a village in

Devon Devon ( ; historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west ...

, 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

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, 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 ...

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

. In 1952, Dartington provided the venue for a major conference in the British

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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 Bernard Howell Leach (5 January 1887 – 6 May 1979) was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". Biography Early years (Japan) Leach was born in Hong Kong. His mother Eleanor (n� ...

and Michael Cardew, and, from Japan,

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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

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 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 Froude was born at Wakeham Farm in the parish of Aveton Gifford n ...

(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 theological 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 Un ...

. *

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 James Anthony Froude ( ; 23 April 1818 – 20 October 1894) was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of ''Fraser's Magazine''. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergym ...

FRSE (1818–1894), an English historian, novelist, biographer and editor of ''

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.'' *

Leonard Knight Elmhirst Leonard Knight Elmhirst (6 June 1893 – 16 April 1974) was a British philanthropist and agronomist who worked extensively in India. He co-founded with his wife, Dorothy, the Dartington Hall project in progressive education and rural reconstruc ...

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