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Tavistock Town Guide 2015-2017 Tavistock Town 2015-2017 Tavistock Town Council Working for the local community A Warm Welcome from the Town Mayor 03 Accessibility 04 History 05 Contents The Present 10 Local Interest 16 List of Events 21 Nearby Attractions 23 Sport and Recreation 26 General Information 27 A Warm Welcome from the Town Mayor n my role of Mayor it gives me great Close to the town centre is an Welcome Ipleasure to welcome you to the town entertainments venue called The Wharf of Tavistock. which offers a variety of arts, cinema, theatre and live music events. Tavistock is situated on the edge of Dartmoor National Park and is an Tavistock has many historic buildings excellent base for a West Country one of which is the Town Hall. This holiday. We have a diverse range places building, situated on Bedford Square, to stay in and around town. plays host to many community events throughout the year. Adjacent to Bedford Whilst in Tavistock you should take Square is the town Museum which time to look around our superb Pannier houses many exhibits and has a variety Market. Over many years visitors to of specialist displays. our Market have been delighted by the variety of goods on sale. We have Next to the Museum is the Guildhall which recently expanded the experience with the was for some years unoccupied but was addition of stalls on the perimeter of the recently purchased by the Town Council main building. and will be developed for community use. Tavistock is lucky in that the main Tavistock provides ideal access to shopping streets have maintained a Dartmoor National Park which provides balance between a variety of independent an opportunity to walk, cycle, horse specialist shops and national outlets. ride or simply stop and admire the ever When a short rest from the shopping changing views it has to offer. experience is required we have a range of cafés and restaurants offering a wide When in the town you are in the place choice, with something for everyone. known as ‘The Gateway to Cornwall and West Devon Mining World Heritage Sites’. The Meadows is the largest recreation area in the town and is situated between the The Town Council is very proud of our Canal and the River Tavy. This extensive town and what it has to offer both visitors area offers the opportunity to sit and relax and locals. As Mayor of the town I do whilst for the younger visitor we offer a play hope you enjoy what we have to offer. I park with many of its pieces of equipment also hope you remember Tavistock as being upgraded during 2015. a great place to visit and that you will be back to see us again soon. Nearby we have a swimming facility, namely Meadowlands Leisure Pool. Councillor Harry Smith Mayor of Tavistock 4 Tavistock Townwww.tavistock.gov.uk Hall 3 Accessibility History A30 It was around 800AD that an Iron was reputed to be a huge man History Location Dartmoor National Park Age fort, recorded as Tavy-stoc who was still alive in 1066 when Tavistock stands in the heart of A38 (“stockade settlement by the he held the manor of Lamerton, an area of tremendous natural Tavy”), and known as The Trendle, among others. Tavistock manor beauty. It is the Western Gateway to was erected on the hill to the went to the Church in 981AD. A Dartmoor and the Eastern Gateway north-east of the present town. It stone coffin, or container for re- to Cornwall. The river Tamar was probably inhabited up to but burial, was dug up in the Abbey follows Devon’s western The Town not beyond the Roman period. By Cloister near the corner of Plymouth boundary and is the heart of The Town is a linear town following about 920AD the settlement had Road and Abbey Place, and was the Tamar Valley, an Area of the route of the River Tavy. The become a Saxon hamlet under the found to contain the bones of a Outstanding Natural Beauty. lush valleys surrounding the administrative district of Lifton. The massive man thought to have been Access town have given rise to fame and present town developed around Ordulf, grandson of Ordgar. They the Benedictine Abbey founded have been re-interred in the Parish Easily reached from the A30 fortune for the town with it now here in the 10th Century. It is Church, and an inscribed slab and A38 trunk roads into Devon, being renowned for fine produce believed work on the Abbey started marks the spot. Dedicated to St Tavistock sits on the North South and markets. Tavistock was voted in 974AD and that it took seven Mary and St Rumon the Abbey was bisecting road, the A386, which Best Market Town in 2004, the years to build as 981AD is the date large enough to contain 1,000 men. connects Plymouth in the South West Country’s Best Food Town in of the Charter from King Ethelred It is interesting to note that a monk with Barnstaple in North Devon. 2006 and Devon’s Best Farmers when the Abbey was known to be here was the first printer in Devon, There are 4 buses an hour into Market in 2006. Tavistock is a ‘Fair in existence. The founder of the with one of the earliest known Plymouth, and regular services into Trade town’ with many outlets and Abbey was Ordulf, son of Ordgar presses in England outside London the surrounding villages. There is specialised local traders providing who had been the Earl of Devon set up in this Abbey. Sailing up the a bus that connects Tavistock with quality individual products. and who died in 971AD. Ordulf died Tamar and then travelling overland, Dartmoor, going via Princetown Shopping in the wide range of local in 1010AD. Ordulf’s son, also Ordulf, the Vikings raided Tavistock and to Yelverton and returning along and specialist shops in Tavistock is the same route. In the Summer a pleasant change from the usual months the Sunday Rover ticket chain store High Street. allows travel around and over the Moor all day on different types of The Area transport for one very reasonable price. Plymouth provides Tavistock Apart from Tavistock’s own beauty with its nearest mainline train and charm it is also a centre for station which not only links to exploring the jewels of the South the rest of the country, but also West. Within one and a half hours provides a link to Bere Alston or travel one has an abundance of Gunnislake to pick up the Tamar National Trust properties and the Valley rail line, one of the prettiest Garden House, Paignton Zoo and branch lines in the country. The the world renowned Eden Project. line follows the Tamar valley and With all this and plenty more on crosses the Tamar at Calstock over offer Tavistock is the ideal place to an impressive viaduct. base your holiday. Abbey Ruins in the Churchyard 6 www.tavistock.gov.uk 5 in 997 they razed the Abbey to the to become Sir Francis Drake. He ground. Abbot Lyfing, who died in left home to become apprenticed 1027, was able to rebuild the Abbey on a ship trading in the Channel and and bring it even greater prosperity in 1567 Drake and Hawkins sailed than before. Under the influence out of Plymouth on a slave-trading History of the Abbey the town prospered voyage to the West Indies, and and spread. After the dissolution first tangled with the Spaniards. By of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1588 when he helped the Lord High 1539 its lands and revenues were Admiral of England to defeat the granted to John Russell, first Earl Spanish Armada, as immortalised of Bedford, whose descendants by that famous game of bowls on became the Dukes of Bedford. Plymouth Hoe, he had been knighted Tavistock, which had received by Elizabeth I for his services to the its Market Charter from Henry I Country (and her Treasury). He made in 1105, developed from its wool his home at Buckland Abbey close trade, enjoying a dispensation to to Tavistock. On Plymouth Road manufacture woollen cloths known is Edgar Boehm’s Statue of Drake, as Tavistock Kersies. The wool erected by the 9th Duke of Bedford in trade flourished for many years, and 1883. Around its granite pedestal are the town prospered from its weekly bas reliefs depicting scenes from the markets, being the centre of a large life of Drake – the first Englishman to farming district. circumnavigate the world. Although more famous than its Tavistock It also had the distinction of being counterpart, the Statue of Drake on one of the stannary towns where Plymouth Hoe is a copy of the original all the mined metal was weighed, Tavistock model, and does not stamped and assessed for duty. possess these bas reliefs. Drake died From the 12th Century considerable during his West Indies Expedition in quantities of copper were mined and 1594, being buried at sea. after a gradual decline, the mining industry by 1850 was booming in William Browne, the poet, was born this area from the famous Devon in Tavistock. He was educated at Great Consuls Mine, which had Tavistock Grammar School around started in 1844. This was once the 1600. Although his style of poetry richest source of copper in Europe, is now unfashionable, Browne and the relics of old workings are undoubtedly influenced other common, some standing stark and poets, including Milton and Keats. awesome against the sky, some On the exterior wall of the Parish softened by a cloak of ivy, others Church may be seen an inscription lost to the sight of all but the most to this Son of Tavistock; born in determined searcher.
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