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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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Shaptor Rock
Tors & Landmarks

Shaptor Rock

Hennock

Shaptor Rock is a significant Dartmoor peak, located near Hennock. It offers breathtaking views over the Wray Valley and beyond, stretching as far as Trendlebere Down and Haytor Rocks.

Sharp Tor, Castle Drogo
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Sharp Tor, Castle Drogo

Drewsteignton

Two crags of shale, not granite, high above the Teign Gorge below Castle Drogo, with the Hunter's Path running a few metres from the summit.

Sharp Tor, Chinkwell
Tors & Landmarks

Sharp Tor, Chinkwell

Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Newton Abbot

A granite rock stack on the south-west shoulder of Chinkwell Tor above Widecombe in the Moor, also called Sharpy Tor, best seen from Thornhill Lane.

Sharp Tor, Harford Moor
Tors & Landmarks

Sharp Tor, Harford Moor

Harford, Ivybridge

A granite tor on a spur above the Erme valley, 6 km north of Ivybridge, dropping almost sheer to Piles Copse, with views to Plymouth and the South Hams.

Dartmoor quiz
A photograph of a place on Dartmoor; the question asks which
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

Which Dartmoor place is this?

Nun's Cross Farm. 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.

Worth a visit
Sharp Tor, Lydford
Tors & Landmarks

Sharp Tor, Lydford

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.

Sharp Tor, Peter Tavy
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Sharp Tor, Peter Tavy

Peter Tavy

A largely forgotten tor of 348 m with three crags crowned by hawthorns, between Great Combe Tor and Cocks Tor above Peter Tavy Combe.

Sharp Tor, Tavy Cleave
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Sharp Tor, Tavy Cleave

Tavy Cleave, Peter Tavy

The principal pile of the Tavy Cleave tors, a conical granite mass of 441 m with a steep, vertical east face above the River Tavy.

Sharp Tor, Yartor Down
Tors & Landmarks

Sharp Tor, Yartor Down

Yartor Down, Widecombe-in-the-Moor

A giant granite cone of 384 m above the River Dart, about halfway between Dartmeet and Ponsworthy, with two stacks and views down the Dart Gorge.

Sharpitor, Lustleigh
Tors & Landmarks

Sharpitor, Lustleigh

Lustleigh, Bovey Tracey

A wooded granite spur tor at the south-eastern end of Lustleigh Cleave, with the Nutcracker logan stone, old postcard views and a steep climb from Lustleigh village.