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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.
Tors & Landmarks
Black Tor, Ugborough
Ugborough, Ivybridge
A small ruined granite outcrop of about 350 m below Butterdon Hill, the least obvious of Dartmoor's four Black Tors, with a bench and long views to the sea.
Tors & Landmarks
Hare Tor, Wapsworthy
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
A small, ruined tor of metamorphic rock on Arthur Hill about 300 m north of the Langstone menhir, not the conical Hare Tor on the Willsworthy range.
Tors & Landmarks
Fox Tor, Mary Tavy
Mary Tavy, Tavistock
A wooded crag of metamorphic rock at 207 m above the River Tavy, the best of the Tavy Four; private land, and not the Fox Tor on the high southern moor.
Tors & Landmarks
Clay Tor
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
A disputed tor on the steep side of the Walkham valley: writers place the name on two different sites nearly a kilometre apart, and Crossing said there is no tor there.
Tors & Landmarks
Little Sharpitor
Walkhampton, Yelverton
A small separate granite outcrop of 395 m about 100 m below Sharpitor near Burrator, on land bought by the Dartmoor Preservation Association in 1984.
Tors & Landmarks
The Hunters' Stone
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.
Rivers & Waterways
Walla Brook (Babeny, East Dart)
Dartmeet, Princetown
A four mile stream from near the Warren House Inn south to the East Dart at Babeny, partly forming the boundary between Teignbridge and West Devon.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“But nothing so natural, gentle reader; for when one gets into a Dartmoor mist there is no saying whither he may wander.”
Also on Our DartmoorSmith Hill Tor — A small but notable metamorphic outcrop near Cudlipptown, partly shaded by oaks and close to a lane.
