What is Totnes?
[[File:St Marys Church Totnes.jpg|thumb|250px|St Marys Church, Totnes]]'''Totnes''' is a [[town]] in South [[Devon]], [[South West England]]. 7,800 people live there. It has many old buildings dating back to [[Tudor]] times, and it has the remains of a [[Norman architecture|Norman]] [[castle]]. The town stands on the [[River Dart]], at the highest point reached by the tide. Totnes is well known in [[Britain]] for its large [[New Age]] community, although some of these people are moving away from the town. The town has many interesting shops selling [[health food]] and [[book]]s, and there are also many [[Art store|art and craft shops]]. A local legend says that Totnes was begun by Brutus of [[Troy]] after the [[Trojan war]]. There is a stone in the high street called the Brutus Stone. This is where people say he first stepped on British soil. == Other websites == {{Commonscat}} * [http://www.devon-online.com/towns/totnes/totnes.html Tourist information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817151727/http://www.devon-online.com/towns/totnes/totnes.html |date=2007-08-17 }} * [http://www.devonmuseums.net/component/option,com_mumancontent/task,view/sectionid,23/ Totnes Museum] * [http://www.totnesonline.com Totnes Community Magazine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306013440/http://totnesonline.com/ |date=2021-03-06 }} [[Category:Towns in Devon]] [[Category:South Hams]] {{multistub|geo|UK}}