Great Trowlesworthy Tor

• Height: 357 m (Little Trowlesworthy Tor: 330 m)
• Grid reference: SX 579 643
• Usual start: Cadover Bridge

Great Trowlesworthy Tor stands 357 m high on the south-western edge of Dartmoor, about 1.7 km east-north-east of Cadover Bridge. Its granite has a pink to red tint, and the tor was quarried: split and square-cut blocks lie about the hillside. On Little Trowlesworthy Tor (330 m) lies a huge shaped block, the abandoned base for a flagpole at Devonport dockyard, said to have proved too heavy to move.

The slopes of both tors are Trowlesworthy Warren, a rabbit warren with about 64 pillow mounds and 40 vermin traps. Historic England says it is generally accepted as the oldest surviving warren on Dartmoor, although doubt has recently been expressed about its medieval origins. It is certainly recorded by 1651 and stayed in use into the first half of the 20th century. The scheduled mounds, traps and cairns have their own group listings, linked below, and the warren has its own page.

Much older remains share the hillside. A double stone row 128 m long runs down the slope south of the tor, with a second alignment about 100 m to the west, and there are hut circle settlements and cairns to the east.

From the top there are views north to Eylesbarrow and Hen Tor, with the Lee Moor clay works also in view. Eden Phillpotts opens his novel The Three Brothers (1909) at Trowlesworthy Farm and its rabbit warren. The usual start is Cadover Bridge.

Sources: Wikipedia; Treks and Tors; Legendary Dartmoor; Historic England; Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks.