The Scheme covers 280 square kilometres of the southeastern corner of Dartmoor National Park, spanning the following parishes:   

Ashburton	Dartmoor Forest	Moretonhampstead
Bickington	Gidleigh	North Bovey
Bovey Tracey	Ilsington	Throwleigh
Buckland-in-the-Moor	Lustleigh	Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Chagford	Manaton

It contains six of the primary landscape character types considered to be quintessentially ‘Dartmoor’:

• unsettled high upper moorland
• upland moorland with tors
• moorland edge slopes
• upper farmed and wooded slopes
• lowland, and 
• plain.