Okehampton
Okehampton is a market town in Dartmoor, Devon, England, on the edge of Dartmoor National Park with direct access onto the moor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,650 residents
- Description: town in Devon, England
- Also known as: “Okehampton, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Okehampton Castle and Okehampton railway station.
Okehampton Castle
Photo: john spivey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Okehampton Castle is a medieval motte and bailey castle in Devon, England. It was built between 1068 and 1086 by Baldwin FitzGilbert following a revolt in Devon against Norman rule, and formed the centre of the Honour of Okehampton, guarding a crossing point across the West Okement River.
Okehampton railway station
Railway station
Okehampton railway station is a terminus railway station on the Dartmoor line serving the town of Okehampton in Devon, England. The station closed to regular traffic in 1972, but heritage and occasional mainline services ran from 1997 to 2019.
Museum of Dartmoor Life
Museum
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Museum of Dartmoor Life is a local museum in Okehampton, Devon, southwest England. It covers life in the Dartmoor area. The museum opened in 1981. It is housed on three floors in an early 19th-century mill and there is a waterwheel at the museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belstone and Meldon.
Belstone
Village
Photo: Graham Loveland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belstone is a small village and civil parish in the West Devon District of Devon, England.
Meldon
Hamlet
Photo: Seglea, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Meldon is a hamlet in West Devon, on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. It is 4 km south-west of Okehampton. Its main features are the Meldon Quarry and Meldon Reservoir and the nearby Meldon Viaduct. Meldon is situated 2½ miles southwest of Okehampton.
Rowtor Target Railway
Locality
Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Rowtor Target Railway was a military narrow gauge target railway south of Okehampton in Dartmoor, England, with a gauge of 24 inches. Rowtor Target Railway is situated 2½ miles south of Okehampton.
Okehampton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: West Devon District, Dartmoor, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.7377° or 50° 44′ 16″ northLongitude
-4.0003° or 4° 0′ 1″ westPopulation
7,650Elevation
512 feet (156 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB OKHOpen location code
9C2QPXQX+3VOpenStreetMap ID
node 61086707OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Okehampton” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Okehampton”
- Basque: “Okehampton”
- Bengali: “ওকেহ্যাম্পটন”
- Cebuano: “Okehampton”
- Chinese: “Okehampton”
- Chinese: “奥克汉普顿”
- Chinese: “奧克漢普頓”
- Dutch: “Okehampton”
- French: “Okehampton”
- German: “Okehampton”
- Gujarati: “ઑકેહેમપ્ટન”
- Irish: “Okehampton”
- Italian: “Okehampton”
- Japanese: “オークハンプトン”
- Kannada: “ಓಕೆಹಂಪ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “오크햄튼”
- Ladin: “Okehampton”
- Latin: “Ochamentona”
- Latin: “Ockhamptonia”
- Lithuanian: “Okehamptonas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Okehampton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Okehampton”
- Persian: “اوکهامپتون”
- Polish: “Okehampton”
- Portuguese: “Okehampton”
- Romanian: “Okehampton”
- Russian: “Оукхэмптон”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوکهامپتون”
- Spanish: “Okehampton”
- Swedish: “Okehampton”
- Tamil: “ஓகெஹம்ப்டன்”
- Telugu: “ఒకేహ్యంప్టన్”
- Turkish: “Okehampton”
- Urdu: “اوکیہامپٹن”
- Vietnamese: “Okehampton”
- Volapük: “Okehampton”
- Welsh: “Okehampton”
- “Okehampton”
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