Hittisleigh

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Hittisleigh is a small rural parish and village just north-east of Dartmoor in Devon. Once part of the ancient district of the Wonford Hundred, it is now administered by Mid Devon District Council and part of the Central Devon constituency. The name Hittisleigh may be derived from Hyttin's leah. Alternatively it may come from the Old English "hithisce" and have meant 'tenant's place or pasture'. Although difficult to date the initial settlement Hittisleigh is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Hittisleigh is known as the birthplace of Samuel Bellamy the eighteenth-century pirate. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 50°44'28"N, 3°47'52"W

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Hittisleigh – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: The Drewe Arms, Castle Drogo, St Andrew's Church, Fingle Bridge.

2.6 miS
Nightlife
The Drewe Arms, Drewsteignton
67 min walk • The Drewe Arms is a Grade II* listed public house on the north side of The Square in Drewsteignton, Devon. Built in the 17th century, the building was modernised in the late 19th century. There may have been a public house at the site in the 16th century.
3.2 miS
20th-century castle with medieval flair
Castle Drogo, Chagford
81 min walk • Castle Drogo is a country house and mixed-revivalist castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. Constructed between 1911 and 1930, it was the last castle to be built in England.
5.7 miS
Church
St Andrew's Church, Dartmoor National Park
147 min walk • St Andrew's Church, Moretonhampstead is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Moretonhampstead, Devon.
3.2 miS
Bars and clubs, Nightlife, Bridge
Fingle Bridge, Exeter
83 min walk • Fingle Bridge is a 17th-century stone arch bridge carrying an unclassified road over the River Teign near Drewsteignton, within Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England.
3.3 miSW
Archaeological site
Spinsters' Rock, Dartmoor National Park
84 min walk • Spinsters' Rock is a Neolithic dolmen near Drewsteignton in Devon. It is situated on Shilstone Farm west of the village. It is near the A382 road.
5.6 miSW
Forts and castles
Gidleigh Castle, Dartmoor National Park
144 min walk • Gidleigh Castle was the manor house of the manor of Gidleigh on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor, about two miles north-west of the town of Chagford, Devon, England.
3.8 miS
Forts and castles
Cranbrook Castle, Dartmoor National Park
97 min walk • Cranbrook Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort occupying a commanding hilltop just to the south of and overlooking the Teign valley in Devon. It is 337 metres above sea level and 2 km south and slightly west of Prestonbury castle, 3 km west of Wooston Castle.
2.6 miS
Hiking, Hiking trail
Two Moors Way, Drewsteignton
66 min walk • The Two Moors Way is a long-distance trail in Devon, UK, first established in 1976. It links Dartmoor and Exmoor and has been extended to become a Devon Coast-to-Coast trail.
3.2 miS
Forts and castles
Prestonbury Castle, Dartmoor National Park
83 min walk • Prestonbury Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort on the north east edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. Situated on a massive hilltop some 240 metres above sea level overlooking the Teign Valley, it is located near two other hill forts both of which lie about 2 km away.
5 miE
Church
Posbury
128 min walk • Posbury is an ancient estate in Devon, now a hamlet, situated about 2 miles south-west of Crediton and 2 miles north of Tedburn St Mary and 1 mile west of the small hamlet of Venny Tedburn.
3.9 miSE
Forts and castles
Wooston Castle, Dartmoor National Park
100 min walk • Wooston Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort situated on the edge of a hill overlooking the Teign Valley in Devon some 200 metres above sea level, only 3 km south and east of Prestonbury Castle and 5 km east of Cranbrook Castle.

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Hittisleigh – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)