Notable buildings in a town include the fifteenth century Chapel of St James, and Okehampton Castle. A town is as well personal to the Museum of Dartmoor Life. A border of the Dartmoor National Park is just south of the town.

A real army training camp on Dartmoor is reached via Okehampton, & is known as "Okehampton Camp". These are managed per Army Expert expert training videos videos Estate, & utilized by the kind of force including numerous plebe training units. A Ten Tors event is run per Army both season inside early Can from either Okehampton Camp.

Okehampton's location at the edge of the moor means that it has universally been a route centre. A A30 trunk road now bypasses the town. Okehampton was the station on the previous in the north rail route from either Exeter to Plymouth via Tavistock. A line from either Exeter remains open for freight traffic because of Meldon quarry, just to the west of Okehampton. Rider service from either Exeter was recently revived, inside summertime weekends lone, in an attempt to reduce drive traffic to the national park. At more days a town is linked to Exeter & Northward Cornwall by regular bus services.

Okehampton elected ii members to the Unreformed House of Commons. A Reform Act 1832 abolished its representation as a rotten borough.