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King's Tor

Grid ref: SX 5564 7387

Main image: Photo: Rob Purvis, Wikimedia Commons

The tor holds two rock basins, a shallow one at the summit and a larger one on a rock to the west.

  • Grid reference: SX 5564 7387 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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“The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle. From The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902).

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