TORS OF DARTMOOR
a database of both lesser- & well-known rocks and outcrops
Whortleberry Cave Located above the left bank of the West Dart River as it swings left and then right under the Crow Tors can be found a lowly but compact outcrop of rock, little more than 150m to the north-west of the weir on the river at SX 6085 7797.  Named as such by Rob Naylor on the Dartefacts database as the area abounds in Whortleberry Plants, the 'Cave' on the south-east side from which the tor takes its name is pretty impressive; a deep opening that would make for a good shelter come a rainy or windy day for a small person.  However, there is photographic evidence that Ann and Tim Jenkinson visited this site c1996 and although they had no name for the small tor here, they recorded it on the back of one photograph as 'outcrop above West Dart Weir'. They revisited in February 2020 and took updated photographs, two of which have been used in this entry.  The tor, whilst small and hardly discernible from the north side as it is predominantly grass-covered, is a rather pleasant feature in the West Dart Valley, possessing fine views up to the Beardown Tors but also to the Longaford Tors on the left when looking downstream towards Wistman's Wood, from which a soggy and ill-defined path gets close to this pile, requiring a small deviation to reach it.
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