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Moretonhampstead

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.

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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.

Get in

Getting to Moretonhampstead

Take the B3212 from Exeter or A382 from Newton Abbot. 359 direct from Exeter to Moretonhampstead, 5 per day (except Sunday). 173 indirect from Exeter via Drewsteignton and Chagford, 4 per day (except Sunday).

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Almshouses

    Cross St, TQ13 8NN (in front of the church of St Andrew).

  2. 02
    Bowring Library
  3. 03
    Dartmoor Pony Statues

    Pound St, TQ13 8NX.

  4. 04
    Moretonhampstead Motor Museum

    The Old Bus Depot, Court Street,TQ13 8LG, moretonhampsteadmotormuseum@gmail.com.

  5. 05
    Cranbrook Castle

    A prehistoric hill fort.

Do

Things to do

Moretonhampstead has an annual carnival, held in the fourth week in August.

  1. 01
    Hingston Down

    Hingston Down is topped by Hingston Rocks 325 m (1,066 ft) high with views over Moretonhampton.

  2. 02
    Moretonhampstead Swimming Pool

    25-metre open-air swimming pool: heated by air source heat pumps and solar power to 27 °C.

  3. 03
    Moretonhampstead World of Hair
How locals move

Getting around Moretonhampstead the local way

  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Devon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Partonez (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.