Welcome to North Tawton, a small rural town situated amid beautiful West Devon countryside and perfectly positioned alongside the river Taw, close to Dartmoor National Park.
North Tawton includes: chapel and two churches, good primary school, park with children’s play area, independent grocery store, independent general store, chemist, estate agents, dentist, doctors surgery, veterinary surgery, three garages, natwest bank, two hair salons, post office, butchers and deli, mini-mart store, cafe, fish and chip shop, kebab and pizza takeaway shop, four public houses, and public toilets facility.
North Tawton amenities include mobile library service (see timetable) on alternate Fridays and Saturdays, parking up in The Square outside the Town Hall.
Jam and Jerusalem
The BBC series ‘Jam and Jerusalem’ was filmed in North Tawton, and on nearby Dartmoor, with local people engaged as acting extras. St Peter’s Church and the Town Hall feature prominently.
Tarka Trail
The Tarka Trail passes through North Tawton.
Ted Hughes
The ancient market town of North Tawton is well-known with regard to the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (1930-1998), recently honoured with a memorial in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner. A stone bearing his name and lines of his poetry set in place below the stone for Ted Hughes’s mentor, TS Eliot.
Fellow poet Seamus Heaney unveiled the memorial in front of more than 300 guests, on December 6, 2011.
The 600 year tradition of honouring the greatest poets of the age with a tomb or a stone in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner includes; Chaucer, Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Blake and Eliot.
(To be continued)
