Black Ridge is a prominent hill on Dartmoor, known for the long peat pass that runs across its top. It is part of the Dartmoor 500 Challenge and offers a distinctive landscape of granite and open moorland. The area is visited by several walks and is marked on maps as a significant feature of the high moor.
Dartefacts is a database of Dartmoor sites with far more close-up detail than we can show here, and it is the best place to go deeper. Dartefacts is free to use, and nobody has to pay to look things up. If you want more, a yearly subscription adds 10-figure grid references, map zoom down to 1:25,000 and lists to tick off the places you have visited, and it helps keep the site going. We would encourage you to subscribe.
View from Sheepstor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography
“Ten thousand years hence it will be a great peat bog.”
Also on Our DartmoorRingmoor Down Stone Circle — A Bronze Age stone circle on open moorland, with weathered stones still standing after thousands of years on Dartmoor's high ground.
Dartmoor quizPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography
Which Dartmoor place is this?
Know another Dartmoor place, tor or landmark we should include? Suggest a listing, it is free.
Our Dartmoor doesn't track you and runs no adverts. We use one cookie to make the
site work, and some pages load videos, maps or optional social media panels from other sites, the panels only if you choose to show them.
View from Sheepstor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography