Jarrold Pathfinder 26 - Dartmoor
ISBN: 0-7117-0515-1
Much of central Dartmoor is an uninhabited wilderness almost free of villages, farms, trees and roads but it is of outstanding environmental value, functioning mainly as a stock-rearing area and as a military training ground. From this mass rise Dartmoor's rivers, including the Lyd, Tavy, East and West Dart, Bovey, Teign, Taw and Okement, nearly all of which flow southwards to the English Channel.
The large numbers of tors that dominate Dartmoor are the remnants of hard masses of granite, drastically reduced in size and moulded into their present shapes by millions of years of weatherings.
Bowerman's Nose, Hound Tor and Haytor Rocks are famous examples included on these walks. Cranbrook Castle, an Iron Age hill fort, is also featured, as are Castle Drogo a 20th century castle; Lydford Gorge an almost perpendicuar ravine of rocks, cliffs, trees and waterfalls; and attractive moorland towns and villages such as Moretonhampstead, North Bovey and Widecombe in the Moor. There is also an opportunity to cross an ancient clapper bridge over the East Dart at Postbridge.
Much of central Dartmoor is an uninhabited wilderness almost free of villages, farms, trees and roads but it is of outstanding environmental value, functioning mainly as a stock-rearing area and as a military training ground. From this mass rise Dartmoor's rivers, including the Lyd, Tavy, East and West Dart, Bovey, Teign, Taw and Okement, nearly all of which flow southwards to the English Channel.
The large numbers of tors that dominate Dartmoor are the remnants of hard masses of granite, drastically reduced in size and moulded into their present shapes by millions of years of weatherings.
Bowerman's Nose, Hound Tor and Haytor Rocks are famous examples included on these walks. Cranbrook Castle, an Iron Age hill fort, is also featured, as are Castle Drogo a 20th century castle; Lydford Gorge an almost perpendicuar ravine of rocks, cliffs, trees and waterfalls; and attractive moorland towns and villages such as Moretonhampstead, North Bovey and Widecombe in the Moor. There is also an opportunity to cross an ancient clapper bridge over the East Dart at Postbridge.