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Devils Tor Outcrop

Grid ref: SX 5970 7931

On walking routes: The Lichway

Main image: Photo: Roger Cornfoot, Wikimedia Commons

From the outcrop, views extend across the gentle undulating moor in all directions, with distant ridges and tors marking the horizon.

  • Grid reference: SX 5970 7931 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“God bless 'ee, ma'am. I be 'most too dry to breathe." ... "Reckon you seed me in the bogs just now, trying to find a drop of water?" ... "Not today. The little spring, her'd been getting drier every day, and this morning I found her'd a gone altogether. Tomorrow I must bring more tay.”

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Kings Tor. A prominent granite tor with two rock basins, overlooking the Walkham Valley and the Princetown Railway.

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