Moretonhampstead
Moretonhampstead is a market town, parish and ancient manor in Devon, situated on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor, within the Dartmoor National Park.
Moretonhampstead is a market town, parish and ancient manor in Devon, situated on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor, within the Dartmoor National Park. The parish now includes the hamlet Doccombe, and it is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes Drewsteignton, Dunsford, Bridford, Bovey Tracey, Lustleigh, North Bovey and Chagford.
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Worth seeing in and around Moretonhampstead
7 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.
5 km · country house in the form of a castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Fingle 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 km · bridge in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St John the Baptist
The Church of St John the Baptist is the Church of England parish church of the village of Lustleigh, Devon, located in the centre of the village.
5.8 km · church in Lustleigh, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Hingston Down
Hingston Down is a hill not far from Gunnislake in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the subject of an old rhyme, due to the prolific tin mining that formerly took place in the area: Hingston Down well ywroughtIs worth London Town dearly bought.
1.5 km · hill in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church 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.
300 m · church in Moretonhampstead, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church 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.
5.3 km · church in Chagford, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Bovey 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.
2.6 km · country house, now hotel, in North Bovey, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Almshouses
Cross St, TQ13 8NN (in front of the church of St Andrew).
- 02Bowring Library
- 03Dartmoor Pony Statues
Pound St, TQ13 8NX.
- 04Moretonhampstead Motor Museum
The Old Bus Depot, Court Street,TQ13 8LG, moretonhampsteadmotormuseum@gmail.com.
- 05Cranbrook Castle
A prehistoric hill fort.
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Things to do
Moretonhampstead has an annual carnival, held in the fourth week in August.
- 01Hingston Down
Hingston Down is topped by Hingston Rocks 325 m (1,066 ft) high with views over Moretonhampton.
- 02Moretonhampstead Swimming Pool
25-metre open-air swimming pool: heated by air source heat pumps and solar power to 27 °C.
- 03Moretonhampstead World of Hair
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Getting to Moretonhampstead
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 87 km · Bristol (BRS), 109 km · Birmingham (BHX), 243 km
- Cardiff → Moretonhampstead100 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £18–24
- Bristol → Moretonhampstead120 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–18
- London → Moretonhampstead271 km · quickest by road, 5h · £28–37
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No local-transport research exists yet for Moretonhampstead
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 Moretonhampstead. 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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- North Boveyvillage in Devon, England, UK3.2 km
- Manatonvillage in Devon, England, UK4.9 km
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