One of the three visitor centres in Dartmoor National Park is set to close today (Friday, October 31) after more than three decades due to a financial crisis.

The Princetown centre, housed in the former Duchy Hotel, has been an information and exhibition hub since 1993.

Earlier this year, the Dartmoor National Park Authority resolved to shut down the attraction at the end of October unless a sustainable business plan was proposed by the community.

The authority revealed it had seen a decrease in core grant funding from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) over the past 15 years, but managed to allocate £50,000 from its reserves to keep the visitor centre open for the 2025 summer season following local insistence on its significance to the village.

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