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Bovey Tracey was an established Saxon community and takes its name from the River Bovey.The name first appears in Domesday Book as Bovi [2] 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.
In the early 1920s, the market cross was adapted to form the centrepiece of a memorial to commemorate the lives of local service personnel who had died in the First World War. [10] Following local government re-organisation in 1974, [11] the local parish council became known as Bovey Tracey Town Council. [8]
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John Southcote of Bovey Tracey (1481 – 1556) was an English landowner and Member of Parliament, [1] of the prominent Southcott family of Devon and Cornwall. John was born the second son of Sir Nicholas Southcott of Southcott, Devon. During his lifetime he served as Clerk of the Peace for Devon. [2]
Hound Tor is a tor on Dartmoor, Devon, England and is a good example of a heavily weathered granite outcrop. It is easily accessible, situated within a few minutes from the B3387 between Bovey Tracey and Widecombe-in-the-Moor.
Indio (anciently Indehoe, Indiho, etc. [1]) in the parish of Bovey Tracey in Devon, is an historic estate. The present large mansion house, known as Indio House is a grade II listed [2] building rebuilt in 1850, situated about 1/2 mile south of Bovey Tracey Church, on the opposite side of the River Bovey.
The Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway was a 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge railway which linked the South Devon Railway at Newton Abbot railway station with Bovey (in the town of Bovey Tracey), Lustleigh and Moretonhampstead, Devon, England.
The River Bovey rises on the eastern side of Dartmoor in Devon, England, and is the largest tributary to the River Teign. The river has two main source streams, both rising within a mile of each other, either side of the B3212 road between Moretonhampstead and Postbridge , before joining at Jurston .