Moretonhampstead
The village convenience store and post office on Court Street, incorporating the Hound of the Baskervilles gift shop, providing everyday essentials, gifts and postal services...
Moretonhampstead
Moretonhampstead's community library, housed in the Grade II listed Bowring Building given to the town in 1902 by shipping magnate Sir Thomas Bowring.
Moretonhampstead
A local history society founded in 1965 that researches all aspects of Moretonhampstead's past, meeting on the third Wednesday of the month in the Stables Bar at the Union Inn.
Moretonhampstead
A community-built sports and community centre, also known as the King George V centre, opened in 2005 and run largely by volunteers.
“Even the half-wild cattle which range the other parts of the moor at pleasure, seem to shun the swampy steppes of the central wilderness.”
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Moretonhampstead
The community hall by the church at the top of Fore Street, with a main hall and stage, a second hall, a meeting and bar room and well-equipped kitchens.
Moretonhampstead
A community-run, solar-heated 25-metre open-air swimming pool open from May to September, offering general and lane swimming, aqua fit, lessons, coaching and water polo.
Moretonhampstead
An independent NHS community pharmacy on New Street, offering NHS pharmacy services, free prescription delivery, a travel clinic, blood pressure checks and other health services.
Moretonhampstead
An authentic Italian pizza restaurant and takeaway in the moorland town, warm and cosy and much praised for its thin-crust pizzas and Italian cooking.
Moretonhampstead
A wild and secluded family and dog-friendly campsite in a grassy meadow surrounded by woodland on the eastern side of Dartmoor, a short drive from Moretonhampstead, with...
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The numerous blocks of granite which appear to be split asunder by some violent action, are said by the moormen to have been riven in that manner by the earthquake which occurred at our Saviour's crucifixion.”
Also on Our DartmoorThe Coffin Stone — A stone at Dartmeet said to mark a coffin's resting place, or to warn of death.
