Dartmoor Forest
Dartmoor Forest is a civil parish in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. It was formed on 1 April 1987 by the splitting of the parishes of Lydford and Walkhampton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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.
Dartmoor National Park
Dartmoor National Park covers a large area of Devon in the West Country of England. 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.
Wistman’s Wood
Deciduous forest
Photo: alex jane, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wistman's Wood is one of Britain's last remaining ancient temperate rainforests and one of three remote high-altitude oakwoods on Dartmoor in Devon, England.
Beardown Tors
Peak
Photo: Jblackford97, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beardown Tors is the 14th highest summit of Dartmoor with a height of 513 metres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Princetown and Postbridge.
Princetown
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Princetown is a village in Dartmoor, in the English county of Devon. The village sits within the Dartmoor National Park. At around 435 m above sea level, Princetown is the highest settlement on the moor.
Postbridge
Village
Photo: Brian Henman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Postbridge is a hamlet in the heart of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon. It lies on the B3212, roughly midway between Princetown and Moretonhampstead. Postbridge is situated 2½ miles east of Dartmoor Forest.
Bellever
Hamlet
Photo: Nthep, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bellever is a hamlet in Dartmoor, Devon, England. It is located on the river East Dart about 2 kilometres south of Postbridge. 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. Bellever is situated 2½ miles east of Dartmoor Forest.
Dartmoor Forest
- Category: civil parish
- Location: West Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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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”
- Low German: “Dartmoor Forest”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dartmoor Forest”
- Polish: “Dartmoor Forest”
- Swedish: “Dartmoor Forest”
- Turkish: “Dartmoor Forest”
- “Dartmoor Forest”
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