Dartington Explained

Coordinates:	50.4511°N -3.7099°W
Country:	England
Official Name:	Dartington
Population:	876
Population Ref:	(2011 census)
Shire County:	Devon
Shire District:	South Hams
Region:	South West England
Dial Code:	01803
Post Town:	TOTNES
Postcode Area:	TQ
Postcode District:	TQ9
Constituency Westminster:	Totnes
Static Image Name:	Cott inn.jpg
Static Image Caption:	The Cott Inn, dating from 1320

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.

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

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.

External links

• The Dartington Hall Trust
• Dartington Parish Council
• Devon County Council's page on Dartington
• The Social Research Unit at Dartington
• Dartington in 1868
• Bidwell Brook School

Notes and References

1. Web site: Parish population 2011. 19 February 2015.
2. Web site: Ward population 2011. 19 February 2015.
3. Web site: Dartington Cider Press Centre . Dartington Trading Company . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080826060535/http://www.dartington.org/cider-press-centre . 26 August 2008 . dmy .
4. Web site: Dartington Primary School . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080914005844/http://www.dartington.devon.sch.uk/school_site/school_site.html . 14 September 2008 . dmy .
5. Froude, James Anthony. 11. 252–253. William. Hunt. William Hunt (priest). 1.