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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.
It operates three information centres within the Park: the High Moorland Visitor Centre in Princetown (opened in 1993) [3] and information centres at Postbridge and Haytor. [17] Since 1979 its headquarters have been just outside the National Park boundary, at Parke in the town of Bovey Tracey. [18]
The following year, in 1761 they made "petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the several Parishes of Teingrafe, Bovey Tracey, Lustley, North Bovey, and Moreton Hampstead" on 19 January 1761, due their road being "incommodious, having a very troublesome ascent and descent, that has scarcely ever been considered a public road". [2]
The Bovey Formation occupies a small area centred on Heathfield between Bovey Tracey and Newton Abbot, partly within the national park. It consists of late Palaeogene age (Eocene to Oligocene) clays, silts and sands with some lignites, some several hundred metres thick in total [5]
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.
Moretonhampstead is a market town, [a] parish and ancient manor in Devon, situated on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor, within the Dartmoor National Park.The parish now includes the hamlet of Doccombe (/ ˈ d ɒ k ə m /), and it is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Drewsteignton, Dunsford, Bridford, Bovey Tracey, Lustleigh, North Bovey and Chagford.
In October 2020, the town council established a new community hub in Station Road, known as the Riverside Community Centre: the centre became the home of the local library, an information centre, a space for growing businesses and a local meeting place: the town council staff subsequently vacated the town hall and also relocated to the new centre.
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 .