Dartington
| Dartington | ||
|---|---|---|
Shire county | ||
| Region | ||
| Country | England | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
| Post town | TOTNES | |
| Postcode district | TQ9 | |
| Dialling code | 01803 | |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall | |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset | |
| Ambulance | South Western | |
| UK Parliament | ||
Dartington is a village in
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.[4]
- Bidwell Brook School
Notable people
- Robert Froude (1771–1859), Rector of Denbury and of Dartington from 1799 to his death
- Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), Anglican priest and an early leader of the Oxford Movement.
- William Froude (1810–1879), an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect.
- James Anthony Froude FRSE (1818–1894), an English historian, novelist, biographer and editor of Fraser's Magazine.[5]
- Leonard Knight Elmhirst FRSA (1893–1974), philanthropist and agronomist, co-founded the Dartington Hall project.
- David Gawen Champernowne (1912–2000), economist and mathematician, family seat at Dartington Hall.
References
- ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 19 February 2015.
- ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 19 February 2015.
- ^ "Dartington Cider Press Centre". Dartington Trading Company. Archived from the original on 26 August 2008.
- ^ "Dartington Primary School". Archived from the original on 14 September 2008.
- ^ Hunt, William (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). pp. 252–253.
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
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