Princetown
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,370 residents
- Description: village in Devon, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Princeton”
Places of Interest
Highlights include HM Prison Dartmoor and North Hessary Tor.
HM Prison Dartmoor
Prison
Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
HM Prison Dartmoor is a Category C men's prison, located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor in the English county of Devon. Its high granite walls dominate this area of the moor.
North Hessary Tor
Peak
Photo: Theroadislong, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Hessary Tor is a 517 metres hill just above Dartmoor Prison, in Princetown within Dartmoor Forest civil parish, which is in the borough of West Devon, Devon, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lower Cherrybrook Bridge.
Lower Cherrybrook Bridge
Locality
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lower Cherrybrook Bridge is a locality, which is situated 2½ miles east of Princetown.
Princetown
- Category: locality
- Location: West Devon District, Dartmoor, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.5444° or 50° 32′ 40″ northLongitude
-3.9915° or 3° 59′ 29″ westPopulation
1,370Elevation
1,375 feet (419 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PIWOpen location code
9C2RG2V5+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 129983760OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Princetown” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Princetown”
- Cebuano: “Princetown”
- Chinese: “普林斯敦”
- Dutch: “Princetown”
- French: “Princetown”
- German: “Princetown (Dartmoor)”
- German: “Princetown”
- Irish: “Princetown”
- Italian: “Princetown”
- Latin: “Princetown”
- Persian: “پرینستاون”
- Polish: “Princetown”
- Spanish: “Princetown”
- Swedish: “Princetown”
- Welsh: “Princetown”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Princetown”. Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.