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Throughout the year, events for all the family - from the spectacular Okehampton Show with the cream of the local farm animals on show, while the showground itself has breathtaking views of Dartmoor - to Edwardian Evening a Christmas Shopping experience in Okehampton - Okehampton has plenty going on all year round. Have a look and see what's on when you want to visit Okehampton.
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Okehampton has been greeting visitors for
over 2000 years. Some were invaders rather than visitors! The area was initially
settled in the bronze age, extensive evidence of which can still be found on
the slopes of surrounding moorland.
Saxon rule came in the 7th century; the name 'Ocmundtune', meaning settlement by the Ockement, is first recorded in AD 980 as a place where slaves were freed at a cross-roads so they could choose their own destiny. The Saxon settlement was probably built up around the parish church, which still stands over half a mile from the modern town.