Giant rocks at the side of the main lower path leading through Shaptor Wood in that part known as Pixey Copse. The outcrops here are jagged, dark and heavily fissured with vegetation growing out and through them.
The outcrop on the footpath looks like a face watching your every step whilst you are distracted by the interesting side outcrops along the way.
The tor here could also possess another name as marked on the Tithe Map for the Parish of Bovey Tracey; Clister Rock. The name is shown to exist within Clister Rock Copse which seems to now be marked as Pixey Copse/Close on Woodland Trust maps. The origin of the name "Pixey" is unknown but could stem from nearby Rixey Close, also marked by Tithe.
Pixey Copse Tor
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