Belstone

[1] The village is central in its parish, surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Sticklepath, South Tawton, Dartmoor Forest and Okehampton Hamlets.

[1] It is possible that Fatherford, in the north west of Belstone parish, was one stage in a Roman extension of the Fosse Way road from Exeter to Launceston.

[3] The village was recorded as Bellestam in the 11th century Domesday Book.

The parish church, dedicated to St. Mary, dates from the 13th century and has priests recorded from 1260.

[1][4] In the 19th century, copper was worked on the moor at Taw River mine which closed in 1892, and at Greenhill in the north-east.