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Dartington is a village in Devon, England. Its population is 876.[1] The electoral ward of Dartington includes the surrounding area and had a population of 1,753 at the 2011 census.[2] It is located west of the River Dart, south of Dartington Hall and about two miles (3 km) north-west of Totnes. Dartington is home to an obsolete cider press (now the centrepiece of a shopping centre named after it[3]), the Cott Inn, a public house dating from 1320, and Dartington Hall.

Dartington
The Cott Inn, dating from 1320
Dartington Location within Devon
Population	876 (2011 census)
District	South Hams
Shire county	Devon
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TOTNES
Postcode district	TQ9
Dialling code	01803
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Totnes
List of places UK England Devon 50.451129°N 3.709928°W / 50.451129; -3.709928

Education

• Dartington International Summer School of music, every summer since 1953
• Dartington College of Arts, which was founded in 1961 and moved to Falmouth in 2008
• Dartington Hall School, a private school located at Dartington Hall between 1926 until it closed in 1987
• Schumacher College
• Dartington Primary School, a state Church of England school.[4]
• Bidwell Brook School

Notable people

• David Gawen Champernowne (1912 – 2000), economist and mathematician. Dartington Hall was the family seat. He is buried in Dartington church.

The Champernownes were a large family with many distinguished members. The Elmhirsts bought the estate in 1925.

References

External links

• The Dartington Hall Trust
• Dartington Parish Council
• Devon County Council's page on Dartington
• The Social Research Unit at Dartington
• Dartington in 1868
• Bidwell Brook School

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