Dartmoor
Dartmoor is a region of Devon best known for Dartmoor National Park. The broader Dartmoor region in and around the park includes several towns and villages.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Tavistock and Ashburton.
Tavistock
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Tavistock is a town in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor. It was the birthplace of Sir Francis Drake. The name comes from the River Tavy, which runs through the town.
Ashburton
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Ashburton is a town on the south-southeastern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England, adjacent to the A38. The town is 20 miles northeast of Plymouth and 17 miles southwest of Exeter.
Okehampton
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Okehampton is a market town in Dartmoor, Devon, England, on the edge of Dartmoor National Park with direct access onto the moor.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Buckfastleigh and Chagford.
Buckfastleigh
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Buckfastleigh is a market town and civil parish in the Teignbridge district, in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park.
Chagford
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Chagford is a market town and civil parish on the north-east edge of Dartmoor, in Devon, England, close to the River Teign and the A382, 4 miles west of Moretonhampstead.
Moretonhampstead
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Moretonhampstead is a town of 1,700 people in Dartmoor, in the English county of Devon within Dartmoor National Park. Its position makes it a base to explore Dartmoor and Devon.
Widecombe in the Moor
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Widecombe in the Moor is a village in Dartmoor, in the English county of Devon. The village sits within the Dartmoor National Park.
Lydford
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Lydford is a village in Dartmoor, the English county of Devon. The village sits within Dartmoor National Park.
Princetown
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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.
Mary Tavy
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Mary Tavy is a village in Dartmoor, in the English county of Devon. The village sits within the Dartmoor National Park.
Drewsteignton
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Drewsteignton is a village, civil parish and former manor within the administrative area of West Devon, England, also lying within the Dartmoor National Park.
Cornwood
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Cornwood is a village in Dartmoor, in the English county of Devon. The village sits within the Dartmoor National Park.
Meavy
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Meavy is a small village in Dartmoor, in the English county of Devon. The village sits within the Dartmoor National Park.
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.
Dartmoor
- Type: Park
- Description: area of moorland in Devon, England
- Also known as: “Dartmoor National Park”
- Category: moorland
- Location: West Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Dartmoor” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دارت مور”
- Armenian: “Դարթմուր”
- Armenian: “Դարտմուր”
- Balinese: “Dartmoor”
- Basque: “Dartmoor Parke Nazionala”
- Basque: “Dartmoor”
- Bulgarian: “Дартмур Форест”
- Bulgarian: “Дартмур”
- Burmese: “ဒတ်မော”
- Catalan: “Dartmoor”
- Cebuano: “Dartmoor Forest (ibabaw’mg patag)”
- Cebuano: “Dartmoor Forest”
- Chinese: “达特穆尔”
- Chinese: “達特穆爾”
- Cornish: “Park Kenedhlek Dartmoor”
- Croatian: “Dartmoor”
- Czech: “Dartmoor”
- Danish: “Dartmoor”
- Dutch: “Dartmoor”
- Esperanto: “Dartmoor”
- Estonian: “Dartmoor”
- Estonian: “Dartmoori rahvuspark”
- Finnish: “Dartmoor”
- French: “Dartmoor”
- Galician: “Dartmoor”
- German: “Dartmoor”
- Hebrew: “הפארק הלאומי דארטמור”
- Hungarian: “Dartmoor”
- Indonesian: “Dartmoor”
- Irish: “Dartmoor”
- Italian: “Dartmoor”
- Japanese: “ダートムーア”
- Korean: “다트무어”
- Latvian: “Dārtmūra”
- Lithuanian: “Dartmūras”
- Low German: “Dartmoor”
- Malay: “Dartmoor”
- Malayalam: “Dartmoor”
- Malayalam: “ഡാർട്മൂർ”
- Maori: “Dartmoor”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dartmoor nasjonalpark”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dartmoor”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dartmoor”
- Norwegian: “Dartmoor”
- Persian: “دارت موور”
- Persian: “دارتمور”
- Polish: “Dartmoor”
- Portuguese: “Dartmoor”
- Romanian: “Dartmoor”
- Russian: “Дартмур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dartmoor”
- Slovenian: “Dartmoor”
- Spanish: “Dartmoor”
- Spanish: “Dartmor”
- Spanish: “Parque nacional de Dartmoor”
- Swedish: “Dartmoor”
- Turkish: “Dartmoor”
- Ukrainian: “Дартмур”
- Welsh: “Dartmoor”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈارٹمور”
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