Towns and villages on Dartmoor

Find the right village or town for your relaxing stay here on Dartmoor,
choose between the names below and click on one to take a closer look.

Ashburton, Belstone, Bovey Tracey, Brentor, Buckfastleigh, Chagford,
Drewsteignton, Ilsington, Lifton area, Lustleigh, Lydford, Manaton,
Moretonhampstead, North Bovey, Okehampton, Peter Tavy, Postbridge,
Princetown, Tavistock, Two Bridges, Whiddon Down, Widecombe, Yelverton.

Maybe you have been to Dartmoor before and remember a place name from your childhood. No need to pore over a
map, just click on the village name above and study each page to easily find accommodation. Dartmoor is widely
known from books written about the Moor. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes crime novel Hound of the Baskervilles which starts out with the death of Sir Charles Baskerville, a possible Liberal candidate !!

Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited whilst staying at Easton Court now a bed and breakfast, near to Chagford.
The artists William Widgery and his son Frederick John Widgery are both well known for their beautifully fine
watercolour depictions of Dartmoor. Cattle in granite tors scenery and ancient crosses
showing a never changing landscape of this magnificent Moorland.