Recreation and activities on and around the moor
Small broken granite tor above the East Okement River, often overlooked but scattered with abandoned millstones and cut rock from old quarrying.
A substantial granite tor at 454m with a military flagpole, surrounded by boundary stones placed to protect it from historic quarrying.
A 517m granite tor overlooking Princetown, dominated by a 196m TV mast but offering views across 50 other tors from its summit.
A modest granite tor rising to 468 metres on central Dartmoor, with open moorland views and easy access from nearby lanes.
Stacked granite towers on Whitchurch Common above Tavistock, with 13 carved markers and excellent views north to Cox Tor and Princetown.
An avenue tor of two granite ridges with pronounced horizontal joints, set near Top Tor in Widecombe parish with good views to Haytor and Widecombe.
Eastern Dartmoor's highest tor at 473m, with a precariously balanced boulder and views across to the coast and Teign Estuary.
Remote granite tor sitting in a basin of higher ground, overlooking Gidleigh Common and rarely visited.
A modest granite tor on Dartmoor's northern edge near Okehampton Camp, with several piles of rock and views across to West Mill Tor.
A Vast Solitude by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography A review of "An Exploration of Dartmoor and its…
Will the real Mary Maria Colling please stand up? (A Dartmoor Story about a lowly Tavistock resident in the Nineteenth…
Bowerman’s Nose: Legends are like memes in slow motion by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography The universe is…
Exercise Baskerville by Clive Darke In 1967 there were eighteen deaths from exposure (hypothermia) and frostbite on…
In the Footsteps of Francis Drake by David J. Hawkings As a boy growing up in Plymouth, I often found myself looking to…
The Loneliest Place by George Wall A solitary hawthorn twists improbably out of the earth. The silhouette of a distant…
Prehistoric Dartmoor by Andrew McAuley Most visitors to Dartmoor National Park are aware that it is a landscape full of…
