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Beardown Tors is part of a walk that includes several tors and the Cowsic River valley. It is located near the Cowsic Head and Beardown Man, with the route passing through Holming Beam and Lydford Tor. The walk involves some boggy sections and offers views from high points like Devil's Tor. The area is well known to walkers and includes a number of notable landmarks and paths.
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Plate from Guide to Dartmoor, page 255, 1909“Away to the northward is seen the boggy land in the neighbourhood of Erme Head, with the distant tors peeping over the dark brown ridges.”
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