Dartington

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Dartington is a village in Devon, England. Its population is 876.^[1] The electoral ward of Dartington includes the surrounding area and had a population of 1,753 at the 2011 census.^[2] It is located to the west of the River Dart, south of Dartington Hall and approximately 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^[3]), 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.^[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

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