Rita And Simon's Ivy Cottage Guidebook
Delicious Food and Traditional Pubs
This is our favourite place to get a Full English breakfast close by if we are feeling lazy and don't want to cook! They also do great lunches and dinners.
Tinpickle And Rhum
This is our favourite place to get a Full English breakfast close by if we are feeling lazy and don't want to cook! They also do great lunches and dinners.
Badgers Holt Restaurant & Tearooms
Two Bridges Hotel
The Cafe On The Green
Crab Shack
3 Queen StUllacombe Farm Cafe & Shop
Haytor RoadThe Rugglestone Inn
The Old Inn
The Coombe Cellars
The Carpenters Arms
Old Town HillSupplies
The Village store is just around the corner, and has everything you would need at short notice!
This wonderful little shop is built and run by the community and relies on volunteers.
Ilsington Village Shop
The Village store is just around the corner, and has everything you would need at short notice!
This wonderful little shop is built and run by the community and relies on volunteers.
Sightseeing
Amazing vantage point with views all the way across the moors to the West, and all the way down to the coast to the East.
It's possible to climb all the way to the top of the rocks for a complete 360 degree view!
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Haytor Rocks
Amazing vantage point with views all the way across the moors to the West, and all the way down to the coast to the East.
It's possible to climb all the way to the top of the rocks for a complete 360 degree view!
City/town information
The village is believed to be an ancient settlement - probably existing 200 to 300 years before the Norman Conquest. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Ilestintona, and there is known to have been a church here since at least the 11th century.
St. Michael's parish church, as seen today, dates back to the 15th century. It was the site of an incident which has passed into local folklore: in 1639 the schoolroom, which was above the west lychgate of the church, collapsed into the street and churchyard.
Apart from its agricultural history, Ilsington's industrial archaeology reflects the mining of the 18th and 19th centuries. Nearby, at Haytor, granite was quarried and carried down to the Stover Canal at Ventiford, Teigngrace, on the Haytor Granite Tramway, the route of which is now commemorated in the Templer Way footpath. Haytor granite was used in the building of many civic structures including London Bridge, over the Thames in London.
Through the centuries, Ilsington village appears to have been largely self-supporting. Census returns and church records show a variety of rural occupations among the local community including farmers, blacksmiths, carpenters, thatchers and stone workers. It had an ancient manor house which fell into ruin after occupation ceased in about 1825. The village's most famous resident was the playwright John Ford, who was born at Bagtor House.
Ilsington
The village is believed to be an ancient settlement - probably existing 200 to 300 years before the Norman Conquest. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Ilestintona, and there is known to have been a church here since at least the 11th century.
St. Michael's parish church, as seen today, dates back to the 15th century. It was the site of an incident which has passed into local folklore: in 1639 the schoolroom, which was above the west lychgate of the church, collapsed into the street and churchyard.
Apart from its agricultural history, Ilsington's industrial archaeology reflects the mining of the 18th and 19th centuries. Nearby, at Haytor, granite was quarried and carried down to the Stover Canal at Ventiford, Teigngrace, on the Haytor Granite Tramway, the route of which is now commemorated in the Templer Way footpath. Haytor granite was used in the building of many civic structures including London Bridge, over the Thames in London.
Through the centuries, Ilsington village appears to have been largely self-supporting. Census returns and church records show a variety of rural occupations among the local community including farmers, blacksmiths, carpenters, thatchers and stone workers. It had an ancient manor house which fell into ruin after occupation ceased in about 1825. The village's most famous resident was the playwright John Ford, who was born at Bagtor House.
Dartmouth
Activities
Crag 2 Mountain
6 Bellever ClAshcombe Adventure Centre Ltd.
Colley LaneHouse of Marbles
Donkey Sanctuary
Dunscombe LaneGo Ape Haldon (Treetop Challenge, Zip Lines, High Ropes)
Pennywell Farm
Lower DeanBuckfast Butterfly Farm neDartmoor Otter Sanctuary
Dart Bridge RoadSaddles & Paddles
The QuayWoodlands Family Theme Park
A3122Crealy Theme Park & Resort
Sidmouth RoadKayakhub Exeter
Maritime Court