Tors & Landmarks
Lower White Tor
A compact tor surrounded by marshy ground, with views across the moor to Rough Tor and Hamel Down.
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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Tors & Landmarks
Lowery Tor
A lesser-known granite outcrop overlooking Burrator Reservoir, situated just south of Peek Hill.
Tors & Landmarks
Lydford Tor
A characterful tor with distinctive horizontal jointings, sitting near the Lych Way and the Cowsic River.
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Tors & Landmarks
Lynch Tor
A quiet tor with a Bronze Age cairn and striking granite outcrops, visible from miles around.
Tors & Landmarks
Maiden Hill
A flat, featureless hill with boggy depressions and cotton grass, near the Merrivale firing range.
Tors & Landmarks
Manga Hill
A granite hill near the North Teign river with historical and landscape links to nearby Mangersford and Manga Rails.
Tors & Landmarks
Mel Tor
A romantic granite tor with views of the Dart Valley and Venford Reservoir, and small rock basins that trap rainwater.
Tors & Landmarks
Meldon Hill
A prominent tor near Chagford with two distinct summit areas and fine views across eastern Dartmoor.
Tors & Landmarks
Merripit Hill
A quiet hill in northern Dartmoor with a Second World War observation post at its summit.
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Plate from Guide to Dartmoor, page 153, 1909“They would always time their departure from Princetown so as to clear the pixie-haunted moor before dark, and from the upper windows of the prison one might watch them winding the distant mule tracks sinuously like torpid snakes.”
Also on Our DartmoorSharp Tor, Lydford — The highest of the Sharp Tors, a granite tor of 519 m on the north moor that moormen call Lydford Sharp, with views over North Devon and Cornwall.
