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Tors & Landmarks

Named tors, hills and other landmarks on Dartmoor. Browse the tors or the hills and mounds, or use the map below to see everything at once.

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Great Staple Tor
Tors & Landmarks

Great Staple Tor

A striking tor with distinctive granite stacks and a quirky avenue between two main piles.

Great Trowlesworthy Tor
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Great Trowlesworthy Tor

Granite tor, 357 m, on the south-western edge of Dartmoor, east of Cadover Bridge, with pink-red granite and Trowlesworthy Warren on its slopes.

Great Wood Tor
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Great Wood Tor

Lustleigh

Great Wood Tor, a prominent peak near Lustleigh, stands out as a series of large moss-covered boulders that rise from the woodland.

Dartmoor quiz

What year is the original motte-and-bailey structure of Lydford Castle thought to have been built?

1195. The motte-and-bailey structure dates to around 1195, though the stone keep you see today is a later addition.

Worth a visit
Greator Rocks
Tors & Landmarks

Greator Rocks

Two large granite piles overlooking Becka Brook valley, with a maze of climbing plants and a notable cave.

Green Hill
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Green Hill

A flat-topped hill in the southern moor, marking the end of the longest stone row in the world.

Green Tor
Tors & Landmarks

Green Tor

A low-lying granite tor with flat rocks protruding from the slopes of Amicombe Hill, near the Rattle Brook.

Gren Tor
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Gren Tor

A modest granite outcrop near the Rattlebrook railway, offering views across the moor and down the River Lyd valley.

Grippers Hill
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Grippers Hill

A flat, grassy high point with cairns marking the summit and views across the southern moor.

Halstock Hill
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Halstock Hill

A distinctive hill with a prominent outcrop, located near the edge of the moor.

Dartmoor Illustrated, page 168Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 168, 1900

“It is a vast solitude. Save the convict settlement of Princetown and a few scattered cottages abutting on the roads which cross the central district, scarce a human habitation greets the eye... the traveller may walk from the outskirts of Princetown to Okehampton — a good fifteen miles — without ...”

Also on Our DartmoorRamsay Mine (dis) — Scattered granite ruins of a 19th-century tin mine, now reclaimed by heather and bilberry on open moorland.