List of Dartmoor tors and hills

This is a list of Dartmoor tors and hills. Dartmoor is a National Park in South West England that contains many granite outcrops of many different sizes. The main authority (other than the OS map) is "Dartmoor Tors and Rocks" by Ken Ringwood.

Birch Tor, with the Warren House Inn in the distance
Vixen Tor, with Great Mis Tor beyond

A–B

C–E

F–G


Tors visible looking north from near the head of the Becka Brook, eastern Dartmoor

H–K

L–M

N–R

S

T–Z

List of prominent summits

The following summits within the National Park have at least 30 metres prominence. Every summit over 300 metres lies within the park boundaries, with the highest top outside them being Livaton Hill (296.2 m, SX 67614 93001).

  1. High Willhays (622 m)
  2. Hangingstone Hill (604.6 m)
  3. Cut Hill (603.8 m)
  4. Great Links Tor (589 m)
  5. Amicombe Hill (585.8 m)
  6. Cosdon Hill (550.5 m)
  7. Great Mis Tor (538 m)
  8. Hamel Down (532 m)
  9. Steeperton Tor (532 m)
  10. Higher White Tor (525 m)
  11. North Hessary Tor (517 m)
  12. Ryder's Hill (515 m)
  13. Beardown Tors (513 m)
  14. White Ridge (505.7 m)
  15. Assycombe Hill (498.6 m)
  16. Penn Moor (493 m)
  17. Birch Tor (488.8 m)
  18. Quickbeam Hill (480.9 m)
  19. Belstone Tor (479 m)
  20. Rippon Tor (476 m)
  21. White Tor (468.9 m)
  22. Challacombe Down (463 m)
  23. Ugborough Moor (461.3 m)
  24. Chinkwell Tor (460 m)
  25. Haytor Rocks (457 m)
  26. Great Staple Tor (455.2 m)
  27. Roos Tor (454.1 m)
  28. South Hessary Tor (454.1 m)
  29. Bellever Tor (444.1 m)
  30. Cox Tor (442 m)
  31. Easdon Tor (439 m)
  32. Corndon Tor (434 m)
  33. Top Tor (432 m)
  34. Laughter Tor (421 m)
  35. Black Hill (414.3 m)
  36. Heatree Down (414 m)
  37. Stalldown Barrow (413.6 m)
  38. Sharpitor (412 m)
  39. Hayne Down (397 m)
  40. Leeden Tor (393.3 m)
  41. Meldon Hill (391 m)
  42. Riddon Ridge (380 m)
  43. Sharp Tor (380 m)
  44. Ugborough Beacon (378 m)
  45. Sheeps Tor (369 m)
  46. Mardon Down (357.1 m)
  47. Blackingstone Rock (355 m)
  48. Gibbet Hill (353 m)
  49. Pepperdon Down (353 m)
  50. Butterdon Hill (351 m)
  51. Gutter Tor (350.6 m)
  52. Mardon Down East Top (349 m)
  53. Uppacott Down (337 m)
  54. Brent Tor (334 m)
  55. Nattadon Common (333 m)
  56. Hunter's Tor (326 m)
  57. Ausewell Rocks (325 m)
  58. Heltor Rock (322 m)
  59. Laployd Plantation (319.8 m)
  60. Beara Common (311 m)
  61. Gisperdown (302 m)
  62. Sloncombe Hill (276 m)
  63. Wigford Down (273 m)
  64. Wastor Hill (272.3 m)
  65. Piddledown Common (268 m)
  66. Shaptor Rock (268 m)
  67. Way Down (267 m)
  68. Prestonbury Castle (249 m)
  69. Broadmoor Common (247 m)
  70. Ashburton Down (241 m)
  71. Green Down (235 m)
  72. Hanger Down (233 m)
  73. Mapstone Hill (221 m)
  74. Ramshorn Down (204 m)
  75. Bowdown Cross (196 m)
  76. Holeland Hill (195.9 m)
  77. Holne Chase (195.4 m)
  78. Dunsford Wood Hill (189.3 m)
  79. Slade Copse (175 m)
  80. Ashburton Hill (161 m)
  81. Hawson Court (154 m)
  82. Penn Wood (144 m)
  83. Terrace Walk Hill (144 m)
  84. Summerhill (133 m)

Notes

The total number of named tors and hills on the moor varies considerably depending on the source. Crossing refers to tors as "These granite masses, of which there are about 170 on Dartmoor". There are at least as many named Hills, Downs, Beacons etc. as well as Rocks used to refer to tors. It is not uncommon for a tor and a hill to share a name, as Tor refers to the granite outcrop (for example Nattor Down), equally, as can be seen in the list above, many names recur. Even the definition of Dartmoor varies between sources, particularly between modern sources and those that predate the national park.

See also

References and further reading

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 1912 Edition, 1965 Reprint (David & Charles, Newton Abbott)
  2. ↑ Ordnance Survey New Popular Edition One-Inch Map Sheet 188 (Torquay), published 1946
  3. 1 2 3 The Gazetteer of Dartmoor Names, Mike Brown, Forest Publishing 1995
  4. ↑ https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/
  5. ↑ https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/hill-view/?rf=17543