Chagford is a village in the English county of Devon in Dartmoor.
Understand
Get in
By Bus
Dartline 173 - 2 buses each day each way Exeter to Moretonhampstead
By Car
3 mi (4.8 km) north of Moretonhampstead on the A382 turn left into B3206 to Chagford.
Chagford long stay car park is at Stableyard, New Street TQ13.
By Foot
The Two Moors Way passes through Chagford.
Get around
See
- 🌍 Spinsters' Rock. A dolmen with a rock roof supported by three rocks
Do
- Chagword Literary Festival, ☏ +44 7518 469 437. Held in March in the Jubilee Hall and Chagford Primary School
- Chagstock, organiser@chagstock.info. Music festival held in July
- 🌍 Meldon Hill. 390 m (1,280 ft) high.
Buy
- 🌍 Proper Job Uptown, 32a The Square, TQ13 8AB, ☏ +44 1647 432 973, uptown@proper-job.org. Tu-Sa 9:30AM=5PM. Community reuse centre incorporating a recycled products shop
Eat
- 🌍 The Old Forge Caffe & Restaurant, 6 The Square, TQ13 8AB, ☏ +44 1647 433 226, saravincent14@gmail.com. Tu-Sa 9AM-16:30PM.
Drink
- 🌍 The Chagford Inn (Buller's Arms), 7 Mill St, TQ13 8AW, ☏ +44 1647 433 109. Chagford's posh pub run by a temporary Enterprise Inns manager.
- 🌍 The Globe Inn, 9 High Street, TQ13 8AJ, ☏ +44 1647 433 485, mary@theglobeinnchagford.co.uk.
- 🌍 Ring O'Bells, 44 The Square, TQ13 8AH, ☏ +44 1647 432 466, info@ringobellschagford.co.uk. Chagford's village pub and free house, dating from the 16th century, with a beautiful carved bar taken from a wooden ship.
Sleep
- 🌍 The Three Crowns Hotel, High Street, TQ13 8AJ, ☏ +44 1647 433 444. Check-in: 14:30PM, check-out: 11AM. A 13th century granite manor house and site of a skirmish with the Roundheads in 1642, Now a 5-star inn. £115-£155.
Connect
As of Sept 2023, Chagford and its approach roads have 4G from EE and Three, but only a patchy mobile signal from O2 or Vodafone. 5G has not reached this area.
Go next
- Drewsteignton 4 mi (6.4 km) to the north east.
- Moretonhampstead 4.5 mi (7.2 km) to the south east.
- Postbridge 7.6 mi (12.2 km) to the south west via B3212 into the heart of Dartmoor.
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