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Tavistock (/ ˈ t æ v ɪ s t ɒ k / TAV-iss-tok) is an ancient stannary and market town in West Devon, England. It is situated on the River Tavy, from which its name derives. At the 2011 census, the three electoral wards (North, South and South West) had a population of 13,028. [2]
A UNESCO World Heritage site, Tavistock has plenty to look at and keep you amused. Situated in the heart of Devon, it is your gateway to Dartmoor and the surrounding national park. It is also a vibrant and interesting town full of fascinating history.
- Tavistock is not a coastal area, it is close to the Dartmoor National Park, and you can easily reach both the north and south coasts. Plymouth is t...
- Tavistock does not have its own railway station, however, you can find connecting services from Exeter and Plymouth. The nearest station is at Gunn...
- Tavistock Goose Fair takes place annually on the 2nd Wednesday in October and has done so since the 12th century. Find out about the latest goose f...
Tavistock is a thriving, beautifully friendly market town that is worthy of any visitor. An ancient stannary town and home of the cream tea, Tavistock is the only town in Devon to hold world heritage status.
- Dartmoor
- Tamar Valley
- Pannier Market
- Buckland Abbey
- Merrivale
- The Garden House
- Tavistock Museum
- Town Hall
- Tavistock Canal
- Dartmoor Prison Museum
Tavistock is on the western boundary of a national park covering 954 square kilometres. This is an ancient granite moor with hilltops that have exposed rocky outcrops known as tors. The highest of these is High Willhays at more than 620 metres above sea level. Between the peaks are misty, waterlogged bogs, the kind that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle’...
South and west of Tavistock is another protected landscape straddling the Tamar River on the way down to Plymouth. The Tamar Valley is both an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Site. To see the valley’s greenery and Medieval stone crossings, you would never know that th...
Henry I awarded Tavistock the right to a weekly “Pannier Market” in 1105, and the tradition has persisted for 900 years. The name “pannier” comes from the baskets that were used to transport goods. The Pannier Market trades in a grand covered hall from Tuesday to Saturday between 09:00 and 16:30. As it was in the 12th century, the main market day i...
As the name tells you, this resplendent house was adapted from a Cistercian monastery (1278) after the Reformation. You can see the arches, pillars and scars left on the walls by the lost adjoining church, as well as the monastery’s Great Barn. In 1541 Buckland Abbey was sold by the crown to the Member of Parliament, Richard Grenville, whose son Ro...
Among the most impressive pieces of prehistory on the moor is Merrivale, a Bronze Age settlement with a complex of ritualistic sites. The site is as old as 4,500 years and was probably worked on until around 1000 BC. You can try to decipher a stone circle, a stone row, two stone avenues more than 200 metres long, several standing stones and numerou...
Laid out in a valley on Dartmoor is a joyful garden often mentioned with the best in the country. The Garden House is a horticulturalists’ idea of heaven, planting more than 6,000 varieties and providing real inspiration for visitors between March and the end of October. Here flowers are allowed to mingle together using informal “naturalistic plant...
A team of volunteers runs this likeable town museum, housed in the historic Court Gate beside the Town Hall. The bulk of the permanent exhibition is in two rooms on the first floor, where you can lift the lid on Tavistock’s mining heritage and learn about Sir Francis Drake’s ties to the town. There’s a superb array of rock specimens brought to the ...
Gifted to the town by the 7th Duke of Bedford in 1860, Tavistock’s town hall is in the vernacular (Bedford Style), a kind of Perpendicular Gothic Revival. This attention-grabbing building is embellished with clustered chimney stacks, decorative battlements, a slate roof with four dormers and an elegant central oriel with its own little crenellation...
This waterway was built in the first years of the 19th century to move goods like copper ore, slate and limestone between Tavistock and the major inland port at Morwhellam Quay ten miles to the south on the River Tamar. There’s no boat traffic on the Tavistock Canal, but you can walk its towpath to see stone bridges, old locks, sweet waterfront cot...
Few prisons in the UK are as famous as HMP Dartmoor, which is more than 200 years old and cuts a powerful figure in the centre of the National Park. Among the many prominent former inmates is the President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising. The prison museum is set in 19th-century dairy buildings and reveals the fac...
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The beautiful town of Tavistock is a key part of the West Devon and East Cornwall UNESCO World Heritage Site. The stannary town was a hub for Devon’s tin trade and is is famous for its pannier market, which draws tourists from up and down the country.
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