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 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 ), 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

 * 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.
 * 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.