Stonelands Waste Tor, also known as 'The Grotto', is a challenging peak located near Bovey Tracey in the parish of Hennock. This tor, part of Shap Tor Wood, is difficult to access due to dense vegetation but offers impressive rock formations.
Dartmoor quizPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography
A group of Dartmoor granite workings near Princetown, worked from the 1820s until 1938. Twelve unused granite corbels, cut in 1903-04 for the widening of London Bridge, still lie beside the old railway trackbed here.
Steep gorge of the River Tavy on north-west Dartmoor, rare for the moor, below Hare Tor and Ger Tor and the setting of Trevena's Furze the Cruel (1907).
The marshy head of the River Taw below Steeperton Tor: once a lake, the target of three reservoir schemes, and a source of Devon's drinking water from 1959 until the 1990s.
“He listened, and distinctly heard one, in a louder tone than the rest, exclaim, "The oven's hot!" "Bake me a cake, then," instantly cried the hungry ploughman.”
Also on Our DartmoorRichard Nicholls Worth — Plymouth journalist, geologist and historian (1837-1896), author of histories of Devonport, Plymouth and Devon.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 192, 1900