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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°27′04″N 3°42′36″W / 50.451129°N 3.709928°W / 50.451129; -3.709928

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 to the west of the River Dart, south of Dartington Hall and approximately 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.

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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

Robert Froude (1771–1859), Rector of Denbury and of Dartington from 1799 to his death
Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), Anglican priest and an early leader of the Oxford Movement.
William Froude (1810–1879), an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect.
James Anthony Froude FRSE (1818–1894), an English historian, novelist, biographer and editor of Fraser's Magazine.^[5]
Leonard Knight Elmhirst FRSA (1893–1974), philanthropist and agronomist, co-founded the Dartington Hall project.
David Gawen Champernowne (1912–2000), economist and mathematician, family seat at Dartington Hall.

References

^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 19 February 2015.
^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 19 February 2015.
^ "Dartington Cider Press Centre". Dartington Trading Company. Archived from the original on 26 August 2008.
^ "Dartington Primary School". Archived from the original on 14 September 2008.
^ "Froude, James Anthony" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). pp. 252–253.

External links

v t e Non-metropolitan district of South Hams
List of civil parishes in Devon#South Hams
Civil parishes	Ashprington Aveton Gifford Berry Pomeroy Bickleigh Bigbury Blackawton Brixton Buckland-Tout-Saints Charleton Chivelstone Churchstow Cornwood Cornworthy Dartington Dartmouth Dean Prior Diptford Dittisham East Allington East Portlemouth Ermington Frogmore and Sherford Halwell and Moreleigh Harberton Harford Holbeton Holne Ivybridge Kingsbridge Kingston Kingswear Littlehempston Loddiswell Malborough Marldon Modbury Newton and Noss North Huish Rattery Ringmore Salcombe Shaugh Prior Slapton South Brent South Huish South Milton South Pool Sparkwell Staverton Stoke Fleming Stoke Gabriel Stokenham Strete Thurlestone Totnes Ugborough Wembury West Alvington West Buckfastleigh Woodleigh Yealmpton
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