Chagford

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3/5 (minimum 1) by Fin on 15 Jan 2007

Chagford is one of chain of small towns around the eastern and southern edges of Dartmoor. Most of them owe their former prosperity and importance to tin or wool. Chagford announces itselt as an ancient stannary town and it looks good, tucked into the first hills of the moor. It's a solid, granite built town of about 1500 people ( according to a shopkeeper), more like a village in size but definitely a small town when you see what it has to offer .On a dull damp Saturday in January it was certainly lively with a busy square and most of the shops and businesses open. There are a least four pubs within a couple of hundred metres of each other, several restaurants/cafes (see separate review for the Old Forge Tea Room) and a whole range of craft shops, galleries, delis, plus two of the best hardware shops I've ever explored- and they are next door to each other! What quickly strikes you is that this isn't a typical small Devon market town serving a large rural hinterland, but the smart country shopping centre for an affluent, probably transient, population who have more than a wiff of Salcombe about them rather than Okehampton or Crediton. We of course were also part of what seemed like a weekend influx and the locals had certainly found ways of making money from them/us. We didn't have time to explore all of the town including some interesting small streets and alleys but look forward to doing so on an off season weekday when it might we easier to get a real sense of the place.

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