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Sandy Park
Sandy Park is a hamlet in Drewsteignton parish, Devon, at the crossroads where the A382 crosses the old road between Chagford and Drewsteignton. The River Teign runs beside it, and paths lead from here to Castle Drogo and Fingle Bridge. Drewsteignton is inside Dartmoor National Park, and Sandy Park is about 1.5 miles north-east of Chagford.
The Sandy Park Inn is the centre of the hamlet. Its listing, dated 4 March 1988, gives it as probably 18th century, enlarged in the 19th and 20th, a thatched building of plastered stone rubble with a granite fireplace. CAMRA calls it a thatched free house thought to be 17th century. Parford House is listed as early to mid 16th century with a major refurbishment in the early 20th. Furlong House is about 1840 to 1850. The Old Smithy was a blacksmith's workshop until it was converted to a home in 1980.
No dated history of the settlement itself has turned up, beyond what these buildings show.
Sandy Park on the map
In Sandy Park
Rushford Tower
Sandy Park, Chagford
A striking stone tower standing sentinel on the open moor, offering glimpses into Dartmoor's industrial and defensive past.
