Totnes

Back in the 1920s, an Englishman who had been in India working with Tagore
on rural renewal projects
married an American heiress he had met when they were both studying at Cornell (see their biographies). They bought Dartington Hall, one of the oldest and largest manor houses in England, and started an assortment of development projects in the area — a textile mill producing tweeds, several sawmills, a cider company, a glassworks, and so on.
Among the things they started was Dartington Hall school (now closed), using fairly novel methods. A.S. Neill's Summerhill is a better-known example with a similar approach. Aldous Huxley sent his kids to Dartington Hall and based some of the educational methods in his novel Island on Dartington.

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• Fore Street and High Street, both lined with Tudor period buildings.

• Totnes Castle

  phone: +44 1803 864406
  address: Castle Street, TQ9 5NU
  Situated on a promontory, commanding the River Dart, Totnes Castle was built by the Normans at a point where three valleys meet. Despite little remaining of the original motte and bailey castle, other than the earthworks, the stone enclosure of Totnes Castle's keep, built at the summit of the motte, has survived to the extent of being one of the best preserved in England.

• Berry Pomeroy Castle

  phone: +44 1803 866618
  address: Berry Pomery, TQ9 6LJ

• Totnes Information Centre

  phone: +44 1803 863168
  address: The Town Mill, Coronation Road, TQ9 5DF
  Run by Totnes Town Council, Totnes Information Centre represents a good starting place for visitors to the town.

• South Devon Railway7 mile steam railway to Buckfastleigh

• DartingtonARTSTheatre, dance and music performances

• Dartington International Summer School of music

• Dartington Crystala famous glassworks

• Cider Press Centrea group of shops

• Roundhouse Cafe

• Barrell House

• Steam Packet Inn

  phone: +44 1803 863880
  address: St Peter's Quay

• Dartmouth
• Kingsbridge
• Salcombe