TORS OF DARTMOOR
a database of both lesser- & well-known rocks and outcrops
Blue Trail Tor (Becky Falls) Just to the west of Deal Copse Slab can be found a rather scruffy looking granite outcrop, that is propped up against trees and bracken, and can be seen from the public footpath which connects the hamlet of Water with Houndtor Wood via part of the Becky Falls Estate.  The small tor here used to be accessible by paying the entrance fee for the Becky Falls attraction (please see here for the current prices) and could be passed whilst walking on the Blue Trail, the easiest of the three coloured routes depicted on the then visitors' leaflet map. However, sometime between 2020 and 2023 the trail was re-routed up and above the tor remnant.  What can be seen from the public footpath now is only a small portion of the lower main outcrop as by having to leave it the tor can still be seen continuing uphill where eventually the bracken peters out, leaving a rather impressive rock draped with ivy and decorated with moss on the steep slope.  Given its proximity to Luke's and Brett's Tors on high, it is most likely that Blue Trail Tor is actually a lower part of these twin outcrops and therefore probably all part of the same rock mass.
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