← Browse Tors & Landmarks · Browse the directory
Main image: Photo: Derek Harper, Wikimedia Commons
Holwell Tor is a substantial granite tor with a flattish summit that offers wonderful views. It is cut by a footpath from the Haytor Granite Tramway heading towards Becka Brook. The tor has been quarried in the north, and its higher parts drop dramatically to the valley floor. Despite its size, it is poorly represented on maps, which is a notable oversight.
Contact us if you have information about this listing
Explore the area
Go deeper with Dartefacts
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.
Thoughts
Be the first to share a thought about Holwell Tor.
Share a thought
Scorhill - Cool Angle. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The atmosphere of Dartmoor deserves particular notice ; it is at all times humid. The rain, which frequently falls, almost without intermission, for many weeks together, is generally small; and resembles more a Scotch mist than a shower.”
Also on Our DartmoorDartmoor Artists — A survey of art on Dartmoor from the 18th century to the present, with short biographies of painters, illustrators and photographers. 144 pages.
Know another Dartmoor place, tor or landmark we should include? Suggest a listing, it is free.
Suggest a listing