Things To Do near Hen Tor
Villages of Dartmoor Driving Tour/Road Trip, Dartmoor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
Dartmoor is small so you can cover a lot of places in a day Dartmoor's a relatively small place. You can walk north to south or east to west in a (long) day. If you want to tour Dartmoor National Park by car then you'll be able to explore its villages and beauty spots with relative ease. There ar...
Hare Tor, Lydford, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
Great place and a favourite tor in the western section of Dartmoor National Park. Topped by a pole used to fly a red flag when the British Army are training in Willsworthy Range, the views from Hare Tor are sensational. Drive the A30 from Cornwall to Dartmoor and Great Links Tor and Hare Tor dominat...
Brentor Hillfort, North Brentor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
Brentor Hillfort is one of Dartmoor National Park's many attractions and we'll be adding more information shortly.
Fernworthy Forest, Chagford, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
Over the years, we've met plenty of people who would put a day exploring Fernworthy Forest and Fernworthy Reservoir above any other experience in Dartmoor National Park. Whilst there are other forests and conifer plantations surrounding reservoirs in Dartmoor, none has the scale and presence of...
Brentor St Michael de Rupe Church, North Brentor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
Brentor St Michael de Rupe Church is one of Dartmoor National Park's many attractions and we'll be adding more information shortly.
Brentor, North Brentor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
Brentor is one of Dartmoor National Park's many attractions and we'll be adding more information shortly.
Hamel Down RAF Memorial, North Bovey, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
At the northern end of Hamel Down, where the moor drops down to Natsworthy, is a memorial to a RAF bomber that crashed after a raid in March 1941 during the Second World War. The memorial is by the side of a path that cuts across the moors to/from English Heritage's ancient settlement Grimspound....
Teignhead Farm (Ruins), Chagford, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
Whilst chatting to a local farmer on Thornworthy Tor, we were told that two farms lay in ruins or were submerged by water in Fernworthy Forest and Fernworthy Reservoir. Another ruined farm lies just west of the forest near Sittaford Tor, Quintin's Man and the source of the North Teign River. This is...
Best Dartmoor Spring Things To Do, Dartmoor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
Holiday in Dartmoor is part of a network of local UK travel sites. Information (photos/words) is provided by locals who live in a local area. We see beautiful spring photos from places like West Cornwall and South Devon when Dartmoor is still in the grip of winter. In short, spring arrives late...
Hookney Down, Moretonhampstead, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
This is an area of moorland between, roughly speaking, Hookney Tor and Hameldown Tor and King Tor on the edge of the high moor near English Heritage's Grimspound. It's particularly beautiful in late summer when the heather flowers. It runs into the vast whale's back of moorland that is Hamel Down...
Dartmoor Giant Ladder, Widecombe in the Moor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
At the end of 2017, in a Dartmoor valley running down to Widecombe-in-the-Moor, a giant ladder appeared in the place where the Dartmoor Giant Chair used to be. The chair was created in 2006 by Henry Brudenell-Bruce and was eventually removed in 2010 after Dartmoor National Park Authority iss...
Fernworthy Bird Hide, Chagford, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
We've positioned Fernworthy Bird Hide on Google maps so zoom in on the 'Satellite' setting to see its location. To visit, follow the road that climbs from Chagford to Fernworthy Reservoir. Continue past the main car park at the entrance to the forest until you come to the southern end of the re...
Dartmoor Giant Chair, Widecombe in the Moor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
[Sadly, Dartmoor Giant Chair is no longer on Dartmoor. This listing provides information about its creation, placement on Dartmoor and current location.] 'If you look west through the wrought iron gate' in The Manor Garden at Cranborne Estate in Dorset, 'you will see a wild flower garde...
East Bovey Head, Postbridge, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
The River Bovey rises on the edge of Dartmoor's high moorland and arcs past the luxury hotel Bovey Castle and North Bovey village before cutting the stunning Bovey Valley as it flows to Bovey Tracey. Beyond the National Park border, it meets the River Teign where the combined river runs east to...
Teignhead Farm Clapper Bridge, Chagford, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)
The North Teign River can be a formidable natural barrier preventing you from walking to Dartmoor's north plateau from the Chagford, Fernworthy Forest and Postbridge areas. Thankfully, there are a number of clapper bridges providing safe passage over the water. The most famous is Teign-e-ver Clapper...