Totnes

Totnes is a market town in the English Riviera and South Devon region of Devon. The village of Dartington is just outside Totnes, as is Dartington Hall.

Understand
The Dartington Hall Estate was purchased Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst in 1925. They wanted to create an "experimental" estate with forestry, farming and educational projects. This led to the opening of a school, a tweed mill, sawmills, a cider company and the famous Dartington glass works.

The school, which has now closed, used novel methods, similar to those used by A.S. Neill at Summerhill . Aldous Huxley's children went to Dartington Hall, some of the educational methods in his novel Island are based on the Dartington School.

See

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

Connect
As of Sept 2023, Totnes and its approach roads have 4G from O2 and Vodafone, and 5G from EE and Three.

Go next

 * Dartmouth
 * Kingsbridge
 * Salcombe