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) north-west of 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.

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
Dartington Hall School, a private school located at Dartington Hall between 1926 until it closed in 1987
Schumacher College
Dartington Primary School, a state Church of England school.
Bidwell Brook School

Notable people
 David Gawen Champernowne (1912 – 2000), economist and mathematician. Dartington Hall was the family seat. He is buried in Dartington church.
The Champernownes were a large family with many distinguished members
The elmhursts bought the estate

References

External links
The Dartington Hall Trust
Dartington Parish Council
Devon County Council's page on Dartington
The Social Research Unit at Dartington
Dartington in 1868
Bidwell Brook School

Category:Civil parishes in South Hams
Category:Villages in South Hams