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Old books sometimes spell "Black Tor" differently. Which of these is one of those spellings?

Blackaton. It appears in 5 of the old books and papers in our research library, so the name has not always been written the way we write it now.

Worth a visit
A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“This shaggy monster, heather-clad, with unctuous black fen rolling ten feet thick over its granite ribs, was his God.”

Also on Our DartmoorEylesbarrow Reave by Brisworthy Plantation — A 300 m stretch of the Eylesbarrow watershed reave running north-east from Brisworthy Plantation up the west slope of Ringmoor Down, up to 2 m wide and 0.4 m high, cut at a cairn.