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Ter Hill

Grid ref: SX 6422 7052

Main image: Photo: Own Herby talk thyme, Wikimedia Commons

However, it does provide good long-distance views to the west and north. The Terrill Posts, two crosses on the side of the hill, mark the highest part of the Maltern Way.

  • Grid reference: SX 6422 7052 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“In the murk of that silent hour, a spirit of thirst seemed to animate the heather and the marshes that oozed out beneath.”

Also on Our DartmoorBlack Tor, Walkhampton — A granite tor of 376 m above the River Meavy with a rocking logan stone on its top outcrop, Black Tor Falls and an old blowing house below.

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“The only convict who really got away from Princetown and was not recaptured was last seen taking a bee-line for Fox Tor Mire.”

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Sabine Baring-Gould. From A Book of Dartmoor (1900).

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