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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Devon. Map D5. n Princetown
Visitor Centre; Tavistock Rd.
Dartmoor National Park Authority
Visitor Centre; 01822 890 414.
∑ dartmoor.gov.uk.
Okehampton Castle: Castle Lane.
Tel 01837 52844. Open Apr–Nov:
10am–5pm daily. & œ
Museum of Dartmoor Life: West St,
Okehampton. Tel 01837 52295.
Open Apr–mid-Dec: 10am–3pm
Mon–Fri, 10am–1pm Sat. & 7
Castle Drogo Castle Drogo: Drewsteignton.
This magnificent early 20th-century mock Tel 01647 433306. Open Castle:
castle – said to be the last castle built in Mar–Oct: 11am–5pm daily; Nov–
England – was designed by architect mid-Dec: 11am–4pm Sat & Sun.
Whiddon Edwin Lutyens for the grocery Gardens: Mar–Oct: 10am–5:30pm
Down magnate Julius Drewe. From daily; Nov–mid-Dec: 11am–4pm
Drewsteignton the house there are lovely Sat & Sun. & 7 gardens only.
River Teign Dunsford walks through the gorge - = ø
Chagford of the River Teign. Transport
3 @ Exeter, Plymouth, Totnes,
Moretonhampstead
then bus.
North
Bovey

Widecombe-
in-the-Moor

River Dart
Ashburton Hound Tor
The remains of this village lie on the eastern edge
Key of Dartmoor. The settlement consists of a cluster of
Major road 13th-century stone longhouses – in which the family
River Avon
Buckfastleigh
Secondary road lived at one end and the animals at the other – on
land that was originally farmed in the Bronze Age.
Other road It was probably deserted in the early 15th century.
Dean Prior
Cornwood South
Brent
Ivybridge
Ugborough

Buckland-in-the-Moor
One of the many picturesque villages on the southeastern side of Dartmoor, Buckland-in-the-
Moor features a cluster of pretty thatched stone cottages and a small granite church.
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