Chagford
Chagford is a market town and civil parish on the north-east edge of Dartmoor, in Devon, England, close to the River Teign and the A382, 4 miles (6 km) west of Moretonhampstead.
Chagford is a market town and civil parish on the north-east edge of Dartmoor, in Devon, England, close to the River Teign and the A382, 4 miles (6 km) west of Moretonhampstead. The name is derived from chag, meaning gorse or broom, and the ford suffix indicates its importance as a crossing place. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,539, which was slightly more than the 1,449 recorded at the 2011 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Chagford
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Castle Drogo
Castle Drogo is a country house and mixed-revivalist castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. Constructed between 1911 and 1930, it is the last castle built in England.
3.3 km · country house in the form of a castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Gidleigh Castle
Gidleigh Castle was the manor house of the manor of Gidleigh on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor, about two miles north-west of the town of Chagford, Devon, England.
3.1 km · Grade I listed castle in Gidleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of the Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity Church, Gidleigh dates from the late 15th-century, and is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Gidleigh, Devon.
3.1 km · church in Gidleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Mary the Virgin
St Mary's Church dates from the late 13th-century, and is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Throwleigh, Devon.
4.6 km · church in Throwleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Fingle Bridge
Fingle Bridge is a 17th-century stone arch bridge carrying an unclassified road over the River Teign near Drewsteignton, within Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. This packhorse bridge has three arches and the two central piers are surrounded by triangular cutwaters extending upwards to form pedestrian refuges, and is a Grade II* listed building.
4.9 km · bridge in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Andrew, Moretonhampstead
St Andrew's Church, Moretonhampstead is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Moretonhampstead, Devon.
5.6 km · church in Moretonhampstead, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of St Michael
St Michael the Archangel's Church, Chagford is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Chagford, Devon.
100 m · church in Chagford, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Bovey Castle
Bovey Castle, formerly the Manor House Hotel, is a large early 20th-century mansion on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, near Moretonhampstead, Devon, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and is now a hotel with 59 individually designed bedrooms in the hotel and 22 three-storey country lodges nearby.
4.3 km · country house, now hotel, in North Bovey, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Spinsters' Rock
A dolmen with a rock roof supported by three rocks.
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Things to do
Chagword Literary Festival,. Held in March in the Jubilee Hall and Chagford Primary School. Chagstock, organiser@chagstock.info. Music festival held in July.
- 01Meldon Hill
390 m (1,280 ft) high.
From Wikivoyage: Chagford, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01The Old Forge Caffe & Restaurant
6 The Square, TQ13 8AB, saravincent14@gmail.com.
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Getting to Chagford
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 88 km · Bristol (BRS), 111 km · Birmingham (BHX), 245 km
- Cardiff → Chagford101 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–25
- Bristol → Chagford123 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £15–19
- London → Chagford275 km · quickest by road, 5h 4m · £29–38
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chagford
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chagford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBrittany Ferries carry vehicles and foot passengers to Plymouth from Roscoff, Saint-Malo (both France), or Santander (Spain).
- Get inPoole in Dorset is by road from Exeter, and receives Brittany Ferries from Cherbourg (France) and Condor Ferries from Saint Helier (Jersey).
- Get inThe other English Channel ferry ports are within a few hours' drive of Devon.
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Next door to Chagford
- Moretonhampsteadtown in Teignbridge, Devon, UK5.4 km
- Drewsteigntonvillage in Devon, England, UK4.9 km
- Gidleighvillage in Devon, England, UK2.9 km
- Throwleighvillage and civil parish in Devon, UK4.3 km
- North Boveyvillage in Devon, England, UK6 km
- Batworthyvillage in Devon, England, UK2.9 km