Walking On Dartmoor

The 43 walks in this guidebook cover the Dartmoor National Park and surrounding areas. The walks are of between 2 and 12 miles, with outlines of five longer routes throughout the 365 sq miles of the Dartmoor National Park. Most walks graded easy to moderate, with a few longer more challenging walks involving the ascent of ‘tors’ and negotiating deep ravines.

INTRODUCTION
Geology and formation of Dartmoor
Vegetation
Fauna
Man on Dartmoor
Legends of Dartmoor
Dartmoor today
Where to stay
Dartmoor weather
Clothing
Equipment
Maps and compasses
Dartmoor letterboxes
Climbing on Dartmoor
Walking on Dartmoor
Using the Guide

SOUTH MOOR
1. Bel Tor Corner, Dr Blackall’s Drive, new Bridge, Spitchwick, Leusdon
2. Sharp Tor, Rowbrook Farm, Double Dart Gorge, Dartmeet, Dartmeet Hill, The Coffin Stone
3. Michelcombe, Sandy Way, Holne Ridge, Hapstead Ford, Chalk Ford, Scorriton (or back to Michelcombe)
4. Scorriton, Chalk Ford, Hapstead Ford, Ryder’s Hill, Snowdon, Pupers Hill, Lud Gate, Chalk Ford
5. Cross Furzes, Water Oak Corner, Huntingdon Cross, Huntingdon Warren, Lud Gate. (Part of the Abbot’s Way
6. Shipley Bridge, Avon Dam, Eastern White Barrow, Western White Barrow, Crossways, Red Lake China Clay Works, Broad Falls, Huntingdon Warren House, Gripper’s Hill, Dockwell Ridge, Shipley Tor
7. Shipley Bridge, Zeal, Ball Gate, Glasscombe Corner, Three Barrows, Two Moors Way via Redlake Mineral Railway Track (or Quickbeam Hill), Western White Barrow, Petre’s Pits, Bala Brook
8. New Waste, Erme Valley, Piles Copse, Downing’s House, The Dancers, Erme Plains, Erme Head, Langcombe Hill, Yealm Head, Yealm Steps, Stalldown Barrow, Hillson’s House
9. Cadover Bridge, Trowlesworthy Warren House, Trowlesworthy Tors, Hen Tor, Shavercombe Head, Shell Top, Pen Beacon
10. Cadover Bridge, Trowlesworthy Warren House, Valley of the River Plym, Ditsworthy Warren House, Giants Basin, Plym Steps, Plym Ford, Eylesbarrow Mine, Scout Hut, Gutter Tor Legis Tor
11. Gutter Tor, Legis Tor, Meavy Pool, Ditsworthy Warren House
12. Ditsworthy Warren House, Giants Basin, (Plym Steps, Plym Ford), Eylesbarrow Mine, Scout Hut
13. Shaugh Bridge, West Down, North Wood, Dunstone, Cadover Bridge, Wigford Down, Dewerstone Rock
14. Norsworthy Bridge, Burrator Reservoir, Deancombe, Cuckoo Rock, Potato Cave, Eylesbarrow Tin Mine, Nun’s Cross Farm, Siward’s Cross, Stone Row, Down Tor
15. Norsworthy Bridge, Track (Newleycombe Lake), Older Bridge, Devonport Leat, Crazy Well Pool, Raddick Lane, Leather Tor Bridge, (Lower Cross)
16. Stanlake, Devonport Leat and Aqueduct, Raddick Hill, Cramber Tor, Cramber Pool, Hart Tor, Prehistoric and Tinners’ Remains on River Meavy, Black Tor
17. Routrundle, Disused Railway Track, Ingra Tor, Swelltor Quarries, King’s Tor, Merrivale Prehistoric Remains, Yellowmeade Farm, Foggintor Quarries, Leeden Tor 7
18. Vixen Tor, Heckwood Tor, Pew Tor, Feather Tor, Windypost Cross
19. Nun’s Cross Farm, Abbot’s Way, Plym Ford, Great Gnats Head, Erme Pits, Grant’s Pot, Phillpott’s Cave, Duck’s Pool, Black Lane, Fox Tor, Childe’s Tomb, Whiteworks
20. Saddle Bridge, Horse Ford, O Brook, Hooten Wheals, The Henroost, Skir Ford, Skir Gut or Girt, Skir Hill, Horn’s Cross, Combestone Tor

WIDECOMBE WALKS
21. Saddle Tor, Low Man, Hay Tor, Hay Tor Quarries, Granite Railway, Holwell Quarries, (Great Tor), Smallacombe Rocks, Grea Tor Rocks, Medieval Village, Hound Tor, (Chinkwell Tor, Bell Tor), Bonehill Rocks, Top Tor, Foale’s Arrishes
22. Bonehill Rocks, Bell Tor, Chinkwell Tor, Honeybag Tor, Thornhill Lane
23. Cold East Cross, Rippon Tor, Newhouse, Foale’s Arrishes, Tunhill Rocks, Blackslade Ford, Buckland Beacon
24. Bennett’s Cross, Birch Tor, Headland Warren, Stone Row, Headland Warren Farm, Hookney Tor, King’s Barrow, Grimspound, (Hameldown Tor), Headland Warren, Mines
25. Hameldown Beacon, Hameldown Tor, Grimspound, Headland Warren Farm, Mines, Soussons Forest, Cator Common
26. Prehistoric Remains, Bellever Tor, Laughter Tor, Huccaby, Brimpts, Babeny, (Dartmeet), Snaily House, Bellever
27. Corndon Down and Tor, Sherwell, Yar Tor
28. Visits to Bowerman’s Nose, Jay’s Grave, Dunnabridge Pound

NORTH EAST MOOR
29. Crockern Tor, Longaford Tor, White Tors, Brown’s House, Flat Tor, Rough Tor, Wistman’s Wood, Two Bridges
30. Drift Lane, Roundy Park, Valley of the East Dart, Waterfalls, Sandy Hole, (Cut Hill, Fur Tor), Statts House, Beehive Hut, The Sheepfold
31. Assycombe Hill, Chagford Common, Mine, King’s Oven, Warren House Inn
32. Fernworthy Circle, Grey Wethers, Sittaford Tor, Quintin’s Man, Whitehorse Hill, Hangingstone Hill, Watern Tor, Teignhead Farm
33. Kestor Rock, Shovel Down, Teign-e-ver Clapperbridge, Scorhill Down, Batworthy Corner
34. Cullever Steps, Oke Tor, Knack Mine, Steeperton Tor, Steeperton Gorge, Taw Marsh, Belstone, Nine Stones, Belstone Tor

NORTH WEST MOOR
35. Moor Gate, Black Down, Yes Tor, High Willhays, West Mill Tor
36. Cranmere Pool
37. Meldon Reservoir, Black-a-Tor Copse, Sandy Ford, Valley of the West Okement River, Cranmere Pool
38. Brat Tor, Bleak House, (Great Links Tor), Rattlebook Peat Works, Corn Ridge, Branscombe’s Loaf, Sourton Tors, Ice Works
39. The Lich Way, Lynch Tor, Fur Tor, Sandy Ford, Watern Oke, Tavy Cleave
40. Higher Godsworthy, The Longstone, White Tor, Stephens’ Grave, Wedlake
41. Staple Tors, Roos Tor, Cox Tor
42. Great Mis Tor, Langstone Moor Circle, Prehistoric and Tinners’ Remains in Walkham Valley
43. Beardown Tors, Foxholes, Crow Tor, Devil’s Tor, Beardown Man, Broad Hole, Cowsic River Valley

LONG WALKS
The Abbot’s Way
The Lich Way
The Mariner’s Way and Two Moors Way
The Perambulation of 1240

APPENDICES
A: Glossary of Dartmoor terms
B: Useful addresses
C: Bibliography