Dartington Hall

Address – Dartington Devon TQ9 0JH Phone 01803 847000 Opening times From dawn to dusk, throughout the year Collection/special features Henry Moore Sculpture, Tilt yard, azalea dell. Dog friendly? On leads Child friendly? Yes, but possibly older children rather than toddlers. Description In 1559 the Champernownes, a Devon family well connected during Elizabethan times, purchased Dartington Hall and it was to remain theirs for the next three hundred years. Their wealth and influence dwindled until agricultural depression in the nineteenth century all but robbed them of a livelihood. At the beginning of the twentieth century they were forced to sell much of their land, and in 1925 the remaining eight hundredacre estate was bought by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, who have restored both the medieval house and rebuilt  a twentieth century garden set within a 1,000 acre estate.

Dartington Hall photograph by Tub Gurnard used under a creative commons licence