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High Willhays stands at 2,127 feet, the second-highest point on Dartmoor, and its summit is crowned by a tor cairn, a Bronze Age monument built from the moorland granite itself. The cairn marks a place of significance in prehistoric Dartmoor, part of a wider pattern of burial and ceremonial sites that punctuate the high moor.
Today the cairn remains as it has for thousands of years, a modest heap of stone in one of the most exposed and elemental places on the moor. From the summit, the view extends across Dartmoor and far beyond, making this both a Bronze Age landmark and a natural vantage point that draws walkers to one of the moor's most distinctive and windswept locations.
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