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Dartington Hall in Dartington, near Totnes, Devon, England, is an historic house and country estate of 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) dating from medieval times. The group of late 14th century buildings are Grade I listed ; described in Pevsner's Buildings of England as "one of the most spectacular surviving domestic buildings of late Medieval England", along with Haddon Hall and Wingfield Manor .
History of Dartington Hall: The people behind the story. The people behind the story. Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst purchased the Dartington estate in 1925, and initiated the ‘Dartington experiment’, setting up a host of farming, forestry and educational projects.
Learn about our founders, dip a toe into the online archive, and explore fascinating stories from our past. In 1925, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst purchased the neglected 14th century Dartington estate. The Elmhirsts were pioneers, inspired by many innovative thinkers of the time – and through Dorothy’s inherited wealth, exceptionally well-off.
3 de ago. de 2019 · The primary inspiration for Dartington came from India where, in the early 1920s, Leonard helped poet and reformer Rabindranath Tagore to establish the Institute for Rural Reconstruction in Bengal. 14 The institute, known as Sriniketan, was intended to revive village life, joining social and economic regeneration with creative self-expression an...
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5 de sept. de 2022 · Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic variety, based on a rural estate in Devon, England, that began in 1925 and continues, albeit in a much-reduced form, to this day. The driving force in its first quarter century, on which this study focuses, was the owners, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst. She was an American heiress and he ...
20 de dic. de 2014 · Dartington Hall was a leading residence of the late fourteenth century and was subject to an important rebuilding programme nearly a hundred years later. Its construction, purpose and development extend far beyond any local consideration, with vital aspects that relate to the broader political and cultural context of late medieval England.
26 de feb. de 2019 · Dartington Hall was an outstanding practical example of this impulse to promote holistic, integrated living. It was a well-financed, internationally-minded social and cultural experiment set up on an estate in South Devon in 1925 by American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst (née Whitney) and her second husband, Leonard, son of a Yorkshire squire-parson.
