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.
Haytor Vale, Bovey Tracey
Fairly flat-topped hill of about 406 m north of Haytor, carrying a group of about 12 cairns, five of them scheduled, above the River Bovey.
“The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm.”
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A bleak 584 m peat plateau in the Okehampton range near Cranmere Pool, topped by a small cairn of white stones, with the Taw and East Dart rising close by.
A granite ridge with a peat pass running across its top, part of Dartmoor’s longest peat pass.
Lydford, Okehampton
A small waterfall and dark pool on the River Lyd below Brat Tor and High Down, beside the Black Rock and the Captain Hunter Memorial. Locals call it the Witches Pool.
A large granite tor of 322 m on Zeal Hill above Shipley Bridge and the River Avon, with the old Zeal Tor Tramway passing close by.
A three-outcrop granite tor of 502 m above Black-a-Tor Copse and the West Okement river, the highest of Dartmoor's four Black Tors.
Ugborough, Ivybridge
A small ruined granite outcrop of about 350 m below Butterdon Hill, the least obvious of Dartmoor's four Black Tors, with a bench and long views to the sea.
Princetown, Yelverton
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.
A high-altitude oak woodland beneath Black Tor, with lichens and mosses carpeting the ground.
