Dunsford

Dunsford is a village on the eastern side of Dartmoor National Park, in the Teign valley in Teignbridge, between Exeter and Moretonhampstead. The parish has about 670 residents over 2,374 hectares (the parish website gives no year). The Domesday Book of 1086 has it as Dunesforda, 'Dunn's ford'. Kelly's Directory of 1902 gave the 1901 population as 633, mostly farming households, with blacksmiths, millers and edge tool makers, and a yearly cattle fair on the Monday after 8 September.

St Mary's church was built between 1420 and 1455 on the site of an earlier church of about 1260. It holds memorials to the Fulford family, whose pew is enclosed by a screen from the Great Fulford chapel. Great Fulford House lies west of the village. It is a semi-fortified Tudor mansion, said by Kelly's to have been built in Elizabeth's reign by Sir John Fulford. The Fulfords have lived there since at least 1190. Britain Express counts about 67 listed buildings in the village, many of cob and thatch, including the thatched village shop, a 17th century farmhouse.

Dunsford Woods, run by Devon Wildlife Trust, covers 57 hectares of oak, ash and birch woodland, bracken slopes and floodplain beside the Teign. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, with entrances at Steps Bridge and Clifford Bridge, and is known for wild daffodils and six species of fritillary butterfly. Dunsford Halt on the Teign Valley Line served the village from 1928 to 1958. The village show is in early July and there is a fancy dress pancake race.