Dartmoor Forest

Dartmoor Forest is a civil parish in the West Devon district, in the county of , England. It was formed on 1 April 1987 by the splitting of the parishes of and .
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  • Type: Locality with 1,740 residents
  • Description: civil parish in Devon, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Dartmoor Forest (civil parish), Devon” and “Dartmoor Forest, Devon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dartmoor National Park and Wistman’s Wood.

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covers a large area of in the of . It provides opportunities for geocaching, whitewater kayaking and canoeing in the winter months, rock climbing on the granite tors and outcrops, cycling, and angling for wild brown trout, sea trout and salmon.

Deciduous forest
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Wistman's Wood is one of Britain's most famous ancient temperate rainforests and one of only a few remote remaining high-altitude oakwoods on in Devon, England.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Princetown and Postbridge.

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is a village in , in the county of . The village sits within the . At around 435 m above sea level, is the highest settlement on the moor.

Village
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is a hamlet in the heart of in the English county of . It lies on the B3212, roughly midway between and . is situated 2½ miles east of Dartmoor Forest.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in , , England. It is located on the river East Dart about 2 kilometres south of . The first mention of a settlement at this location is in a Duchy of Cornwall record from 1355 which gives the name of a farm here as Welford, a contraction of wielle and ford. is situated 2½ miles east of Dartmoor Forest.

Dartmoor Forest

Latitude
50.5897° or 50° 35′ 23″ north
Longitude
-3.9619° or 3° 57′ 43″ west
Population
1,740
Elevation
1,522 feet (464 metres)
Open location code
9C2RH2QQ+V6
Geo­Names ID
7297597
Wiki­data ID
Q1924474
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Dartmoor Forest” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Dartmoor Forest (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Dartmoor Forest”
  • Chinese: “Dartmoor Forest”
  • Dutch: “Dartmoor Forest”
  • French: “Dartmoor Forest”
  • Irish: “Dartmoor Forest”
  • Latin: “Silva Dartmorica”
  • Low German: “Dartmoor Forest”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dartmoor Forest”
  • Polish: “Dartmoor Forest”
  • Russian: “Дартмор-Форест”
  • Swedish: “Dartmoor Forest”
  • Turkish: “Dartmoor Forest”
  • “Dartmoor Forest”

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