Sampford Courtenay railway station

Belstone Corner is a village in West Devon in the English county of Devon, part of the civil parish of Sampford Courtenay. The Sampford Courtenay railway station, on the Exeter to Okehampton line, is at Belstone Corner and originally bore this name.

Sampford Courtenay is a village and civil parish in West Devon in England, most famous for being the place where the Western Rebellion, otherwise known as the Prayerbook rebellion, first started, and where the rebels made their final stand. It has a population of around 600.The Church of St Andrew is mainly built of granite and has an elegant tower.Between 1867 and 1972, the village was served by the nearby Sampford Courtenay railway station at Belstone Corner. The station reopened for the heritage Dartmoor Railway between 2002 and 2021, after which it closed permanently. Network Rail reclaimed ownership of the Dartmoor line between Yeoford and Okehampton in 2021, but have no plans to reopen the station.

Stockley is a hamlet on the eastern outskirts of Okehampton, in Devon, England. It lies just north of the A30.

Okehampton Interchange (formerly known as Okehampton Parkway) is a railway station in Okehampton, Devon on the Dartmoor Line. The station is sited off Exeter Road, by the Business Park and close to the junction with the A30, in the Stockley Hamlet area of Okehampton. Its location will allow it to serve 900 new homes that are to be built nearby. Following the Government announcing the reopening of some of the rail lines that were closed in the 1960s and 1970s, the line through the site was proposed for a new intermediate station between Okehampton and Crediton. Devon County Council purchased a site for a new station.

Honeychurch is a village and former civil parish now in the parish of Sampford Courtenay, in the West Devon district of the English county of Devon. It was originally an ancient parish in the Black Torrington hundred of northwest Devon. With about thirty inhabitants in 1066, the village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Honechercha". The description mentions five farms, which are still in operation in the 21st century. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Honeychurch in the following: "HONEY-CHURCH, a parish in Okehampton district, Devon; near the river Taw, 2 miles WNW of North Tawton r. station, and 5½ ESE of Hatherleigh. Posttown, North Tawton, North Devon. Acres, 607. Real property, £497. Pop., 44. Houses, 9. The property is subdivided; and the manor belongs to the Earl of Portsmouth. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £93. Patron, the Rev. Dr. Brailsford. The church is old, and has a tower." On 31 December 1894 the parish was abolished and merged with Sampford Courtenay. By 1894 there were only 8 houses. The parish had 66 inhabitants in 1801, 69 in 1848, 35 in 1891, and 44 in 1901.The 12th-century church, dedicated to Mary, is largely in its original state, save for the addition of the 15th-century three-bell tower and 16th-century portico in the south facade. The name of the village refers to the previous building on this site, "Huna's church", founded in the 10th century by the Saxon landowner Huna.

Sticklepath is a village and civil parish on Dartmoor, in West Devon district, county of Devon, England. It gives its name to one of the most important geological faults in south-west England, thought to have originated during the Tertiary period and known variously as the Sticklepath fault, Sticklepath fault zone, Lustleigh-Sticklepath fault or Sticklepath-Lustleigh fault.

Okehampton Hamlets is a civil parish in the Borough of West Devon and the English county of Devon, it runs independently from the Okehampton Town Council, meetings are held at the Meldon Village Hall. The Parish of Okehampton Hamlets is a rural parish situated in West Devon. It is made up of the hamlets of Brightley, Southcott, Meldon and Stockley. The parish occupies 15.48 square miles and it has an estimated population of 1,765. The hamlet of Southcott, which is predominantly agricultural with a number of small agricultural enterprises, having merged into one larger agricultural unit to secure the fragile agricultural community which has struggled in the past. The hamlet of Brightley lies north of Okehampton. The River Okement runs through the hamlet dividing Abbeyford Woods from the flat farmland. Farming is the main commercial activity due to the decline of forestry activity in Abbeyford Woods. The leat which once powered Brightley Mill can still be seen and just inside the hamlet at Brightley Farm stands a wall, dating back to the 12th century, on the site of an ancient Abbey, hence the name Abbeyford Woods. The hamlet of Meldon, which is rich in industrial archaeological remains, is home to Meldon Dam which across the ravine towards Meldon Viaduct which is now part of the National Cycle Route and a network of paths around Meldon Quarries, now a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. The Meldon Woods belong to Okehampton Hamlets Parish Council and the Council is working with the Dartmoor National Park Authority to reintroduce traditional coppicing techniques to increase biodiversity and as a result the woodland now supports a variety of wildlife including roe deer, foxes, wrens and tree creepers and much more.

Brightley Priory was founded in 1133 as a Cistercian monastery. It was built in 1136 and was situated about two miles north of Okehampton in Devon and was abandoned by the monks after only 5 years on their removal to a nearby site which became Forde Abbey.

Finch Foundry is a 19th-century water-powered forge situated in Sticklepath, a small village at the foot of a steep hill on the road from Exeter to Okehampton, Devon, England. Its original name was Manor Mills, and it was originally used to produce agricultural and mining hand tools. At its peak, the foundry produced around 400 edge-tools a day. The founder was William Finch, who was born in 1779. Several generations of the family ran the foundry, most notably Rebecca Finch, who managed the business at its peak. It remained an active foundry until 1960 when the roof collapsed and has been a National Trust property since 1994. It contains examples of a tilt hammer, drop hammer, and shear hammer all powered by water wheels. The Trust maintains the forge in working order and demonstrations of the tools are given. The Finch Foundry (originally Manor Mills) was operated by John Browning and John Stanbury in 1805. The foundry was formed by William Finch in 1814 in the cloth mill, and the deeds show that at this time William Finch was John Stanbury's tennant. The Finch family operated the foundry continuously from 1814 to the end of the First World War, when the Finch brothers, Albany, James and Thomas, finally formed a partnership and bought the property so that they could expand. This expansion survived the depression of the 1930s until the death of Albany Finch in 1945. After this, the family business became a limited company under the directors Ralph Finch, Charles Bowden and Richard Barron. The company survived until the collapse of the south wall of the foundry in 1960.

Exbourne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Devon. The Anglo-Saxon origin of the name is gæces burn - Cuckoo Stream. It occupies a hillside location between the River Okement and the Hole Brook, about 5 miles north of Okehampton in West Devon, and height above sea level ranges between 280 Ft. and 484 Ft. It lies in a primarily agricultural location and the local parish council represents both Exbourne and nearby Jacobstowe. The population of the ward which represents Exbourne and all surrounding villages was 1,695 at the 2011 census.The village contains a Conservation Area, in which the principle building is the Church of St.Mary with its embattled tower and some fabric dating from XIV c. The present Manor House was built ca. 1830, and the manorial court was formerly held at Court Barton. There is a Church of England Primary School which has three classes with about sixty children on roll.. Other public buildings include the Methodist Chapel and the Village Hall, which was formerly the Manor Hall. An early Bible Christian chapel and Sunday School still stand, converted for residential use. The public house is called the 'Red Lion' which has undergone extensive work.There is an eco-friendly underground community shop, cafe and post office (opened 2012), which has been funded through grants and local funding.A garage, filling station and car workshop (RB Tyres) lies at the crossroads with the A3072. At the boundary with Jacobstowe stands an ancient packhorse bridge over the Okement river.

North Wyke is an historic manor in the parish of South Tawton, Devon. The surviving grade I listed manor house, the original Devonshire seat of the Wyke (alias de Wray) family from the early 13th century to 1714, retains its basic mediaeval form, but was "improved and reconstructed" by Rev. William Wykes-Finch (d.1920) in 1904, historian and descendant (via a female line) of the Wyke family, to the design of G.H. Fellowes Prynne. Currently, the manor is part of Rothamsted Research's North Wyke site.

Halstock Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. It is located in the valley of the East Okement River 1.5km southeast of Okehampton Railway Station. This woodland site is protected because of the upland habitat dominated by sessile oak.