Dartington

Dartington is a village in Devon, England. Its population is 876.[1] The electoral ward of Dartington includes the surrounding area and had a population of 1,753 at the 2011 census.[2] It is located to the west of the River Dart, south of Dartington Hall and approximately two miles (3 km) north-west of Totnes. Dartington is home to an obsolete cider press (now the centrepiece of a shopping centre named after it[3]), the Cott Inn, a public house dating from 1320, and Dartington Hall.

Dartington
The Cott Inn, dating from 1320
Dartington is located in Devon
Dartington
Dartington
Location within Devon
Population876 (2011 census)
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTOTNES
Postcode districtTQ9
Dialling code01803
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

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
  • Dartington Hall School, a private school located at Dartington Hall between 1926 until it closed in 1987
  • Schumacher College
  • Dartington Primary School, a state Church of England school.[4]
  • 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 Oxford Movement.
  • William Froude (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.[5]
  • 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
  1. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  2. "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  3. "Dartington Cider Press Centre". Dartington Trading Company. Archived from the original on 26 August 2008.
  4. "Dartington Primary School". Archived from the original on 14 September 2008.
  5. Hunt, William (1911). "Froude, James Anthony" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). pp. 252–253.


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