Widecombe-in-the-Moor /ˈwɪdɨkəm ɪn ðə ˌmʊə/ is a village and large
civil parish on
Dartmoor National Park in
Devon, England. The name is thought to derive from 'Withy-combe' which means Willow Valley. 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. The parish is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of
Manaton,
Ilsington,
Ashburton,
Buckland-in-the-Moor,
Holne and
Dartmoor Forest.