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West Buckfastleigh is a civil parish located at the eastern fringes of Dartmoor, and lies inside of the borders of the National Park. The majority of the parish is farmland. The parallel valleys of the Holy Brook and the River Mardle run through the parish. It is crossed by the ancient track known as Abbots' Way. [1]
Buckfastleigh is a market town and civil parish in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park. It is part of Teignbridge and, for ecclesiastical purposes, lies within the Totnes Deanery .
Buckfast Abbey and Methodist Church. Buckfast is a small village near Buckfastleigh in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, on the bank of the River Dart. [1] It is the home of Buckfast Abbey, an active Benedictine monastery, which gave its name to Buckfast Tonic Wine, originally made there, and to the Buckfast bee, a bee breed originally developed at Buckfast Abbey.
Buckfastleigh Urban District Council, which had been based at Harewood House further to the west along Bossell Road, [10] relocated to the town hall in the 1960s. [11] However, this was short-lived as the town hall ceased to be the local seat of government when Teignbridge District Council was formed in 1974. [ 12 ]
The Tradesman's Arms. The village is about three miles northwest of Buckfastleigh and is situated within the boundaries of Dartmoor National Park.. The village consists largely of about a dozen stone-built cottages, but there are also 4 local authority houses, a farm in the centre of the village, and a popular inn with food and accommodation, called The Tradesman's Arms. [2]
The nave of the Abbey church is in a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic styles. The first abbey at Buckfast was founded as a Benedictine monastery in 1018. [4] [5] The abbey was believed to be founded by either Aethelweard (Aylward), Earldorman of Devon, [5] or King Cnut. [6]
The Anglican parish church of St Paul was built in 1910-1912 and is a grade II listed building. [4] [5] Yelverton is one of six parishes which form the West Dartmoor Mission Community, [6] within the Tavistock Deanery of the Diocese of Exeter. [7] Holy Cross Catholic Church was built as a chapel in the early 1920s and upgraded to a church in 1928.
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