Dartington

Dartington is a village in Devon, England. Its population is 876. The electoral ward of Dartington includes the surrounding area and had a population of 1,753 at the 2011 census. It is located west of the River Dart, south of Dartington Hall and about two miles (3 km) from Totnes. Dartington is home to an obsolete cider press (now the centrepiece of a shopping centre named after it ), the Cott Inn, a public house dating from 1320, and Dartington Hall.Also visit the charming village hall which dates back to 1925 and built in recognition of the fallen local soldiers in WW1

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.
 * Schumacher College
 * Dartington Primary School, a state Church of England school.
 * Bidwell Brook School



Famous people

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