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Totnes, Devon is an English Market town. The village of Dartington is just outside Totnes, as is Dartington Hall.

[edit] Understand

Back in the 1920s, an Englishman who had been in India working with Tagore on rural renewal projects married an American heiress he had met when they were both studying at Cornell (see their biographies [1]). They bought Dartington Hall, one of the oldest and largest manor houses in England, and started an assortment of development projects [2] in the area — a textile mill producing tweeds, several sawmills, a cider company, a glassworks, and so on.

Among the things they started was Dartington Hall school (now closed), using fairly novel methods. A.S. Neill's Summerhill [3] is a better-known example with a similar approach. Aldous Huxley sent his kids to Dartington Hall and based some of the educational methods in his novel "Island" on Dartington.

[edit][add listing] See

• Dartington Hall [4], now a conference center
• Dartington College of Arts [5]

[edit][add listing] Do

• Theater, dance and music performances, see DartingtonARTS [6].
• Furniture making courses [7]
• Dartington International Summer School [8] of music

[edit][add listing] Buy

• Dartington Crystal [9], famous glassworks
• Cider Press Center [10], a group of shops

[edit][add listing] Eat

Roundhouse Cafe [11]

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[edit][add listing] Sleep

[edit] Get out

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