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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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Branscombe's Loaf
Tors & Landmarks

Branscombe's Loaf

Two granite outcrops on Corn Ridge said to be the bread and cheese of Bishop Bronescombe, turned to stone when the stranger who offered them was seen to have a cloven hoof.

Brat Tor
Tors & Landmarks

Brat Tor

A granite tor with a prominent cross on its summit, visible from the A386 road.

Buckland Beacon
Tors & Landmarks

Buckland Beacon

Buckland in the Moor

A 382 m tor above the Dart valley near Buckland in the Moor, with the Ten Commandments carved into granite at its foot in 1927 and 1928.

Bullaton Rock
Tors & Landmarks

Bullaton Rock

Lustleigh

Bullaton Rock is a granite peak located near Lustleigh, best viewed from below. It offers grand views over the Wray Valley, though access is now private.

Burrator Waterfall
Tors & Landmarks

Burrator Waterfall

Meavy

Burrator Waterfall, located some 300 metres south of the Burrator reservoir, is a picturesque cascade on Sheepstor Brook.

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

Which Dartmoor place can you see behind Brat Tor and Widgery Cross?

Brentor Church (St Michael de Rupe). Brentor Church, St Michael de Rupe, is the parish church of Brentor and one of the iconic landmarks of West Devon, founded in 1130 on the summit of Brent Tor.

Worth a visit
Butterdon Hill (Harford)
Tors & Landmarks

Butterdon Hill (Harford)

Harford, Ivybridge

Butterdon Hill, 366 m, above Harford on south Dartmoor: large summit cairns and the start of the 2 km Butterdon stone row.

Butterdon Hill (Moretonhampstead)
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Butterdon Hill (Moretonhampstead)

Moretonhampstead

Butterdon Hill, 351 m, in north-east Dartmoor north of Moretonhampstead: a 2.3 m granite standing stone on its west side and cairns on the summit.

Buttern Hill
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Buttern Hill

A modest granite peak on the North East of Dartmoor - great views to the West and East.

Calveslake Tor
Tors & Landmarks

Calveslake Tor

A small, squat tor above Calves Lake with a rugged kistvaen and an old letterbox nearby.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“He sits very quiet now for hours at a time, perched on a moor-stone so still as a heron.”

Also on Our DartmoorThe Dewerstone and the Wild Hunt — A Wild Hunt legend tied to an Iron Age fort above the River Plym, popular in Dartmoor folklore but of uncertain age and origin.