Holne
One of the most beautiful wild-swimming pools in the Dart Gorge, a long, deep reach of clear green water between two cascades, lined with granite slabs and little sandy coves.
Dartmoor Forest
A deep pool on the East Dart in the remote northern moor, where the young river narrows through Sandy Hole Pass over a bed of sand and gravel, once deepened to help float cut peat downstream.
Manaton
A lively moorland brook that rises near Hound Tor and tumbles down through boulders as Becky Falls before joining the River Bovey below Trendlebere Down.
Okehampton Hamlets
A northern moor brook rising below High Willhays, the highest ground in southern England, and running down between the tors of the Okehampton range to meet the West Okement near Meldon.
Dartmoor Forest
A short northern moor brook flowing down from below East Mill Tor to join the East Okement River at Cullever Steps, a well-known ford and crossing near Belstone.
Rattery
A tumbling brook that rises on Dean Moor and falls through a steep, wooded glen of small waterfalls down to Buckfastleigh, one of the two moorland rivers that shaped the town.
Didworthy
A southern moor brook running down off the high ground near the Avon, past old tramway and mining remains, to join the River Avon in the wooded country above South Brent.
Meavy
A brook flowing off the flanks of Sheeps Tor through the Burrator woods, past the ruins of Narrator farm, to feed Burrator Reservoir and the River Meavy.
Dartmoor Forest
A remote northern moor brook rising below Steeperton Tor and running down through Taw Marsh to join the young River Taw, deep in the Okehampton range.
Hound Tor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“It is a vast solitude. Save the convict settlement of Princetown and a few scattered cottages abutting on the roads which cross the central district, scarce a human habitation greets the eye... the traveller may walk from the outskirts of Princetown to Okehampton — a good fifteen miles — without ...”
Also on Our DartmoorOkehampton Range Observation Post 16 — Observation Post 16 and its target butts, 737 m north-east of the summit of Okement Hill: a concrete shelter under a mound 3.9 m high and two shell-damaged butts, in an area of craters.
