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King Tor sits on the eastern side of Dartmoor, just below the prominent King’s Barrow. It’s a modest tor with scattered granite outcrops and a shallow rock basin on its highest point.
- Grid reference: SX 7094 8160 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“throughout the winter it is quite a different thing ; in the darkness, fog, and often snow, there is not much to admire in the files of spectral convicts marching across the yards into Chapel.”
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