Tors of Dartmoor Blog
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Autumn 2019, Issue 136, p48-49 The literature of Dartmoor occasionally reveals some curious and rather fanciful place names for its rocks and tors that have usually been assigned by local people on account of their appearance or their proximity to nearby landscape features. However, over […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Summer 2017 Issue 127. Greatrock Copse lies approximately three quarters of a mile to the northwest of the village of Hennock on East Dartmoor, and is a fascinating place for discovering hidden rock piles as well as a series of granite stones dated 1858. The name […]