Cramber Tor
A short granite outcrop with a lonely feel, situated on the side of a hill near Devonport Leat.
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A short granite outcrop with a lonely feel, situated on the side of a hill near Devonport Leat.
Tor at 442 m on Dartmoor's western edge, made of dolerite and altered slate, not granite, with a cairn cemetery on the summit and hut circles below.
What Dartmoor tor is sometimes known as "East Okement Farm Tor"?
A fine cluster of granite rocks with a trig point and a plaque dedicated to the Creber family.
A small granite outcrop on private land, visible from public paths nearby with hints of ancient rock basins and a logan stone.
A bowl barrow 21.3 m across and 0.6 m high on the summit of Galford Down with wide views, ringed by a mostly buried ditch 2.7 m wide.
A hillfort on Cranbrook Down with a square enclosure 160 m across, ramparts and ditches on three sides, and two entrances, partly dug by Baring-Gould in 1901.
Crownhill, Plympton
A striking Victorian fortress crowning the high moor, built to defend against an invasion that never came.
Sheepstor, Yelverton
A granite tor of three main outcrops above Ditsworthy Warren in the Plym valley, beside the Scout hut car park, with a large rock basin on top and an Ordnance Survey trig pillar further up the hill.
Under The River Taw. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“It struck me as something new in farming, and I was going to ask him what there was in it that he paid a labourer to hoe his stubbles.”
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