Saddle Tor

Grid ref: SX 7508 7641

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Saddle Tor is a prominent tor situated by the road, featuring two main granite masses separated by short grass.

Grid reference: SX 7508 7641 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)

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Tors of Dartmoor Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks, sites near here The Megalithic Portal, nearest recorded site

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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 142, 1900

“A high wind raged along the sky and roared over the grave-crowned bosom of White Hill on Northern Dartmoor.”
Eden Phillpotts, The Whirlwind, 1907

Also on Our DartmoorDown Dartmoor Way — Phillpotts's first Dartmoor book: sketches and short tales of moor life that opened the vein he would work for the next sixty years.

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