Dartington is a village in

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...

, England. Its population is 876. The electoral ward of ''Dartington'' includes the surrounding area and had a population of 1,753 at the 2011 census. It is located west of the

River Dart The River Dart is a river in Devon, England, that rises high on Dartmoor and flows for to the sea at Dartmouth. Name Most hydronyms in England derive from the Brythonic language (from which the river's subsequent names ultimately derive fr ...

, 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 "on ...

and about 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 abo ...

. Dartington is home to an obsolete

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(now the centrepiece of a

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named after it), the Cott Inn, a

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dating from 1320, and

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

between 1926 until it closed in 1987 *

Schumacher College Schumacher College is a college near Totnes, Devon, England which offers ecology-centred degree programmes, short courses and horticultural programmes. The College is internationally renowned for its experiential approach to learning, encouragin ...

* 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 Richard Hurrell Froude (25 March 1803 – 28 February 1836) was an Anglican priest and an early leader of the Oxford Movement. Life He was born in Dartington, Devon, the eldest son of Robert Froude (Archdeacon of Totnes) and the elder brother o ...

(1803–1836), Anglican priest and an early leader of the Oxford Movement. *

William Froude William Froude (; 28 November 1810 in Devon – 4 May 1879 in Simonstown, South Africa) was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (suc ...

(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 clerg ...

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

Fraser's Magazine ''Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country'' was a general and literary journal published in London from 1830 to 1882, which initially took a strong Tory line in politics. It was founded by Hugh Fraser and William Maginn in 1830 and loosely directe ...

.'' *

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