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.
Lydford, Okehampton
A small waterfall on the Doetor Brook between Doe Tor and Brat Tor, described by William Crossing in 1914 as a most charming cascade hidden away in a narrow rift.
Old books sometimes spell "Hen Tor" differently. Which of these is one of those spellings?
Lydford
Ruined Dartmoor farmstead below Doe Tor, occupied for over 200 years until the mid-1950s, with a genuine literary connection to Sabine Baring-Gould and an antiquarian puzzle over one of its granite stones.
Lydford, Okehampton
A small concrete slab bridge carrying a well-used path over the Doetor Brook between Doe Tor and Brat Tor, a few metres from the gate to Doe Tor Farm and easy to miss among the gorse.
A flat, boggy hill with views north and west towards Princetown and Yar Tor.
A striking tor with huge granite slabs and superb views across Burrator Reservoir.
Meavy
Stone-lined watercourse, about 17.5 miles long, built in 1590-91 to carry water from the River Meavy on Dartmoor to Plymouth. Francis Drake was closely involved in getting it built.
A modest granite tor on the central moor with open views across the high plateaux and rolling moorland.
A distinctive granite outcrop on the Bench Tor ridge, situated between North and South Tors.
A weathered granite tor with a trig pillar and views across Hameldown and Hey Tor Rocks.
