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.
Shipley Bridge, South Brent
A large carved granite boulder beside the Avon Dam road near Shipley Bridge, bearing the names of South Devon Hunt members; not a tor.
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Two rowan trees growing side by side on the slope of Oke Tor, looking out over Taw Marsh, named by Glavind Strachan Photography and recorded on Dartefacts under the same name.
A quiet tor with a notable logan-stone and views over Fernworthy Reservoir.
Top Tor, also known as Dream Tor, has three prominent granite outcrops with a ruined summit pile visible from the north-west.
A long, thin band of granite on Belstone Common, with a clitter field to the west and signs of old quarrying nearby.
Harford
Tristis Rock, also known as Hall Tor, stands as a striking granite outcrop near Harford. Perched above the River Erme, it offers a commanding view of the surrounding landscape, including Stalldon and other nearby tors.
A distinctive group of granite rocks near Widecombe, linked to the poet Beatrice Chase's 'Dream Tor' legend.
Moorhaven Village
Ugborough Beacon stands as a prominent landmark on Dartmoor, visible from the A38 as you drive past South Brent. It is a collection of granite outcrops that form a striking group, though none are particularly tall.
A striking granite tor resembling the Sphinx, located near Tavistock and Princetown.
Plate from Amid Devonia's Alps, page 47, 1888“On New Year's night the buckets in the prison froze solid in four hours. The running stream that supplied all the buildings with water was ice to the bottom ; the prisoners quenched their thirst with snow, and huddled together at night to prevent being frozen ; their breath, condensing on the ...”
Also on Our DartmoorCairn with a quartz-sided cist, Langcombe Brook — A cairn 7 m across with part of its kerb and a cist 1.2 m long whose west side slab is vein quartz, near the head of a southern tributary of the Langcombe Brook.
