Widecombe in the Moor - village and civil parish in Devon, United Kingdom

Widecombe in the Moor is a village in the English county of Devon in Dartmoor National Park.

Get in

By car

From the east follow the B3387 from Bovey Tracey through Haytor. From the south and west through Ponworthy.

By bus

Newton Abbot Community Transport 672 from Newton Abbot, Ashburton and Buckfastleigh once a week

Get around

See

• The Church House, TQ13 7TA, 50.57662°, -3.81154°, +44 1364 621 321, churchhouse@nationaltrust.org.uk. A fine community building built c.1540 used as an alms house, brewery and school. 2020-12-10
• St Pancras Church, TQ13 7TA, 50.57675°, -3.81098°, +44 1364 621 334. Sometimes known as the Cathedral of the Moor. 2020-10-07

Do

• Widecombe Fair, Village green and Fair Field. Second Tuesday of September. All the trappings of a traditional country fair: livestock contests, vintage tractors, dog shows and a bail tossing competition. The fair has become famous thanks to a humorous folk song in which a group of local yokels ("Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all") borrow a lame old mare to ride to the fair, only for her to die of exhaustion on the moors. When performed right, it's funnier than it sounds. Free, but expect to pay for parking 2020-10-18

Tors (granite outcrops on top of hills) to climb:

• Bell Tor, 50.58660°, -3.79466°. high. 2020-11-10
• Bonehill Rocks, 50.58303°, -3.79305°. high 2020-11-10
• Hollow Tor, 50.57188°, -3.79291°. high. 2020-11-10
• Wind Tor, 50.56735°, -3.82596°. At the south of Dunstone Down. high. 2020-10-17

Buy

Eat

• The Cafe On The Green, TQ13 7TA (North of the Church), 50.57739°, -3.81102°, +44 1364 621 720, info@thecafeonthegreen.co.uk. 10AM-4:30PM (closed M). Breakfasts and light lunches served 2020-12-10

Drink

• The Old Inn, TQ13 7TA, 50.57650°, -3.81210°, +44 1364 621 207. noon-7:30PM except Su closes 4PM. 2020-10-17
• The Rugglestone Inn, TQ13 7TF, 50.57434°, -3.80800°, +44 1364 621 327. A Grade II listed inn with a cosy bar and a stream running through the garden. 2020-10-07

Sleep

Cope

• Public Toilet, 50.57738°, -3.81043°. 2020-12-10

Go next

• Haytor Vale to the east (follow the B3387).
• Buckland in the Moor to the south.