According to Widecombe's official website, there are 196 households in the village, although its large and sprawling parish stretches for many miles and encompasses dozens of isolated cottages and moorland farms.

Also popular are the traditional Toby Jugs; a type of mug, with a handle, shaped as a three-dimensional caricature of a person's head, sometimes fictional, sometimes a celebrity.

[citation needed] The church of St Pancras is known as the "Cathedral of the Moors" in recognition of its 120-foot tower and relatively large capacity for such a small village.

[citation needed] It was badly damaged in the Great Thunderstorm of 1638, apparently struck by ball lightning during an afternoon service.

[citation needed] In Widecombe churchyard is the grave of novelist Beatrice Chase who lived for much of her life in a cottage close to the village.

[citation needed] The size of the parish meant that, for centuries, families were obliged to walk for miles to attend the church every Sunday.

[citation needed] The deserted medieval village of Hutholes and the abandoned farmstead Dinna Clerks (also spelt Dinah Clark's) are nearby.

In the reality show Celebrity Ghost Stories, American actor Daniel Stern claimed to have had an unsettling, and possibly supernatural, experience while on a brief visit to the village during his honeymoon in 1980.