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Stonelands Waste Tor
Bovey Tracey, Devon
Grid ref: SX 8181 7991 Find this on the Map Reference Finder
Main image: Mossy stems, Stonelands Waste - 99 metres from location - image by Derek Harper (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Stonelands Waste Tor, also known as 'The Grotto', is a challenging peak located near Bovey Tracey in the parish of Hennock. Its summit, at grid reference SX 818 799, can be seen from a gate between Lower Bowden and Furzeleigh Cross, where it stretches for about 200 metres, with notable outcrops visible from the road.
- Grid reference: SX 8181 7991 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Life has become like that great Grimpen Mire, with little green patches everywhere into which one may sink and with no guide to point the track.”
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