Tors of Dartmoor Blog
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Autumn 2018 Issue 132. Until relatively recently the various landscape features of the far eastern side of Dartmoor National Park (DNP) had been largely overlooked in the literature of the moor. One of the possible reasons for this could lie in the explanation offered […]
Looking at the Ordnance Survey map, Tim had spotted a potential undocumented tor, above Canonteign Falls; a marked area of exposed rock. When he showed me it, I too was keen to check it out, so we came up with a route to explore the Canonteign Down area in addition to revisiting Hyner Rocks. We […]
If you look at a map of the area between Canonteign Falls and Hennock, on the eastern edges of Dartmoor, you will see a few places with the name “Hyner”; There’s Hyner Bottom, Hyner Farm, Hyner Hill Plantation, Hyner Bridge and Little Hyner, but curiously, there doesn’t appear to be reference to a Hyner Rocks […]