Attractions in Bovey Tracey

Home to a Roman Catholic community of Benedictine Monks. If you look at a plan of the buildings at Buckfast Abbey you will notice that the Church is located at their centre. This is a reflection in bricks and mortar of the centrality of prayer in the heart of each monk who lives here.

Heather-covered moorland and deep wooded gorges, beautiful reservoirs and rocky rivers, patchwork farmland and craggy granite tors, the Dartmoor National Park covers an area of 368 square miles - the largest, and wildest, area of open country in southern England.

Departing from Okehampton, the 'Dartmoor Pony' climbs for 2 miles through scenic Devon countryside, through Estrayer Park tunnel, past open meadows, finally running alongside the workings of Meldon stone quarry to Meldon Viaduct station in the Dartmoor National Park.

Makers and purveyors of a world famous range of Glass Marbles, Glassware, and Decorative Glass Accessories, Traditional Games, Toys, and Crafts.

Could you live without electricity? Could you cope without central heating? Where would you get food and clothes if there were no supermarkets or clothes shops? Would you survive? The people of Dartmoor did! Find out how at the Museum of Dartmoor life.

The Devon Guild of Craftsmen is the largest contemporary crafts centre in South West England, newly refurbished in 2004, with Jubilee Gallery, extended Craft Shop and The Terrace café in the grade II listed Riverside Mill on the fringes of Dartmoor.