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Okehampton
Town in Devon, England

Okehampton

Okehampton is a town and civil parish in West Devon in the English county of Devon.

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Okehampton is situated at the northern edge of Dartmoor 21 miles (34 km) west of Exeter, 26 miles (42 km) north of Plymouth and 24 miles (39 km) south of Barnstaple. It had a population of 7,309 at the 2021 census.

Get in

Getting to Okehampton

Trains run daily every two hours from Exeter St David's, with peak hour services starting from Exeter Central, taking 45 min via Crediton. This "Dartmoor Line" re-opened for passenger trains in 2021. The 1 station is half a mile south of the village. It's an unstaffed platform with a ticket machine but no toilets.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Okehampton Castle
  2. 02
    Finch Foundry

    Sticklepath, EX20 2NW (4 miles east of Okehampton), finchfoundry@nationaltrust.org.uk.

Do

Things to do

Granite Way is an 11-mile walking and cycling path along the edge of Dartmoor, from Okehampton to Sourton and Lydford. It crosses the spectacular Meldon and Lake Viaducts.

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