title: Dartington
text: # Dartington
  
  Dartington is a village in Devon, England. Its population is 876. The electoral ward of Dartington includes the surrounding area and had a population of 1,753 at the 2011 census. It is located to the west of the River Dart, south of Dartington Hall and approximately two miles (3 km) north-west of Totnes. Dartington is home to an obsolete cider press (now the centrepiece of a shopping centre named after it), the Cott Inn, a public house dating from 1320, and Dartington Hall.
  
  ## Education
  
  * Dartington International Summer School of music, every summer since 1953
  * Dartington College of Arts, which was founded in 1961 and moved to Falmouth in 2008
  * Dartington Hall School, a private school located at Dartington Hall between 1926 until it closed in 1987
  * Schumacher College
  * Dartington Primary School, a state Church of England school.
  * Bidwell Brook School
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Robert Froude (1771–1859), Rector of Denbury and of Dartington from 1799 to his death
  * Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), Anglican priest and an early leader of the Oxford Movement.
  * William Froude (1810–1879), an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect.
  * James Anthony Froude FRSE (1818–1894), an English historian, novelist, biographer and editor of Fraser's Magazine.
  * Leonard Knight Elmhirst FRSA (1893–1974), philanthropist and agronomist, co-founded the Dartington Hall project.
  * David Gawen Champernowne (1912–2000), economist and mathematician, family seat at Dartington Hall.
  