The town of Bovey Tracey is located South West of Bristol airport a distance of 80 miles that would take around 1 hour 32 minutes by taxi via the M5 and A38. Bovey Tracey is a small town in Devon, right on the edge of Dartmoor, its proximity to which gives rise to the "slogan" used on the town's boundary signs, "The Gateway to the Moor".
Bovey Tracey was an established Saxon community and takes its name from the River Bovey. The name first appears in Domesday Book as Bovi and possibly earlier as Buui. The town gained its second name from the de Tracey family who were lords of the manor after the Norman Conquest, and was first documented as Bovitracy in 1309. During the English Civil War on 9 January 1646, Oliver Cromwell and a contingent of his Roundhead army entered Bovey Tracey after dark and caught part of Lord Wentworth's Regiment by surprise, catching a number of officers playing cards in an inn. Many of Wentworth's Royalist troops escaped, but Cromwell did capture about 400 horse. The next day a battle was fought on nearby Bovey Heath ending in victory for Cromwell's army. The name of Cromwell lives on in the town today in both the public house "The Cromwell Arms".
The town has a good mixture of shops and there is a farmers' market on alternate Saturday mornings. At the top of the town, the church has a tower dating from the 14th century. The Bovey Tracey Heritage Centre in the old Bovey railway station is run by volunteers and is open in the summer months. On the outskirts of the town is the House of Marbles, a visitor attraction on the site of the historic old pottery. Also nearby are a Devon Wildlife Trust nature reserve at Bovey Heath and the Haytor Granite Tramway.
Haytor Vale, Dartmoor National Park, Newton Abbot, TQ13 9XP
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Bovey Tracey Hotel Addresses:
The Edgemoor Country House Hotel
Haytor Rd, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9LE
Tel: 01626 832466
Bovey Castle
North Bovey, Dartmoor National Park, TQ13 8RE
Tel: 01647 445 000
Dolphin Hotel
Station Rd, Bovey Tracey, TQ13 9AL
Tel: 01626 832413
The Riverside Inn
Fore St, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9AF
Tel: 01626 832293
The Cromwell Arms
Fore St, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9AE
Tel: 01626 833473
The Rock Inn
Tel: 01473 226789
Islington Country House Hotel
Ilsington Village, Newton Abbot TQ13 9RR
Tel: 01364 661452
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