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Extract from the Okehampton and the northwestern moor Travel Guides:
The main centre on the northern fringes of Dartmoor,
OKEHAMPTON
grew prosperous as a market town for the medieval wool trade, and some fine old buildings survive between the two branches of the River Okement that meet here, among them the prominent fifteenth-century tower of the
Chapel of St James
. Across the road from the seventeenth-century town hall, a granite archway leads into the
Museum of Dartmoor Life
(Easter-Sept Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4.30pm; Oct-Easter Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; 2;
), an excellent overview of habitation on the moor since earliest times. Outside town, loftily perc...
read the whole Okehampton and the northwestern moor Travel Guides...
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