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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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Metheral Hill
Tors & Landmarks

Metheral Hill

A flat-topped hill beside Steeperton Tor with a spot height stone marking its high point.

Middle Staple Tor
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Middle Staple Tor

Middle Staple Tor sits above the Middle Walkham Valley with views between King's and Vixen Tor.

Middle Tor
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Middle Tor

A modest yet splendid tor with beautifully jointed rocks, situated midway between Kestor and Frenchbeer Rock.

Nat Tor
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Nat Tor

A modest tor with fine views into Tavy Cleave, accessible from Lane End car park.

Dartmoor quiz

Old books sometimes spell "Black Tor" differently. Which of these is one of those spellings?

Blackaton. It appears in 5 of the old books and papers in our research library, so the name has not always been written the way we write it now.

Worth a visit
North Hessary Tor
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North Hessary Tor

A granite tor with a towering TV mast and a PCWW 1917 boundary stone built into the rock.

Northcombe Copse Tor
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Northcombe Copse Tor

Lustleigh

Northcombe Copse Tor is a small broken tor located on the south slopes of Northcombe Copse, east of Hawkmoor Park. It consists of three distinct sections, with the middle group being the most impressive.

Nun's Cross Farm
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Nun's Cross Farm

Princetown

A remote farmstead south of Princetown: first built after an 1870 Duchy lease to John Hooper, rebuilt as the present house in 1901, now a school-run bunkhouse.

Oke Tor
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Oke Tor

A modest granite tor rising to 468 metres on central Dartmoor, with open moorland views and easy access from nearby lanes.

Okement Hill
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Okement Hill

A modest hill with an observation post, flanked by Hangingstone Hill and High Willhays.