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Places to stay in Bovey Tracey
According to the town council 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, many 15th-century carvings including three misericords, and a screen described by Arthur Mee as "one of the finest in this county of fine screens". The church has an unbroken list of vicars from 1258. On the bank of the River Bovey, the Devon Guild of Craftsmen headquarters is in an 1854 building known as Riverside Mill. The building has an undershot waterwheel that was used to pump water up to a tank in the building's tower. The stored water was used as the supply for a nearby house owned by John Divett and to water its stable yard and gardens. Nearby, 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 are the House of Marbles, a visitor attraction on the site of the historic old pottery; and the headquarters of the Dartmoor National Park Authority at Parke, a large house which is leased to the authority by the National Trust. Also nearby are a Devon Wildlife Trust nature reserve at Bovey Heath and the Haytor Granite Tramway, the route of which runs through the parish, west of the town.
