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- Parish: Lustleigh
- Height: 319 m
- Grid reference: SX 7604 8246
- Rock: Granite
Hunter's Tor sits at the north-western end of a rock-studded hillside above Lustleigh Cleave. Part of the large rock mass is built into a wall on the ridge apex, where the ground falls steeply to the River Bovey, and from below the tor looks like a leaning tower almost parallel to the slope. It is a striking viewpoint over much of eastern Dartmoor, taking in Haytor Rocks, Great Hound Tor, Bowerman's Nose and the plateau tops of Hamel Down and Mardon Down.
A hillfort lies on the hilltop a little above the tor, an oval enclosure about 116 m long and 70 m wide, with three concentric ramparts on the south-east side and two on the north-west, and an inturned entrance to the south-east. A hut circle lies between the middle and inner ramparts on the eastern side. A path reaches the tor from the north-west near Peck Farm.
The Hunter's Tor in the Teign Gorge, near Castle Drogo, is a different place, about 8 km to the north-west, across the eastern moor.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“When us is married, then, mind y', Peter, I'm not going to have that silly brother of yourn in the house with me." "Indeed!" was Peter's retort; "then into my house *you* shall never come.”
Also on Our DartmoorWilliam Crossing — Victorian topographer and antiquary (1847-1928), the single most prolific chronicler of Dartmoor, author of the classic Guide to Dartmoor and a dozen other books on the moor.
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