Things To Do near Cut Lane (Cut Hill Peat Pass)
The Royal Oak Inn, Meavy, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
Great pub location This is one of Dartmoor's great pub locations. The Warren House Inn is on high moorland. Fingle Bridge Inn is in a classic Dartmoor steep-sided valley. The Royal Oak Inn is in a picture-postcard village by the village green. Highly recommended when on holiday in Dartmoor Nation...
Bovey Valley Woodlands, Lustleigh Cleave and Hunter's Tor Circular Walk, Bovey Tracey, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
Some of the best valley views in Dartmoor National Park Dartmoor is fringed by stunning steep-sided wooded valleys. Lustleigh Cleave is one of the best. Located at the upper end of the Bovey Valley, Lustleigh Cleave offers some of the best valley views in the national park. This walk takes you...
Clam Bridge, Manaton, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
The River Bovey cuts a beautiful valley between Foxworthy Bridge and Drakeford Bridge. Lustleigh Cleave dominates the upper section of the valley. Houndtor Wood and Hisley Wood are beautiful downstream. Towards the middle of the valley, next to a modern, wooden footbridge is Clam Bridge. Fenced off...
Manaton Old Road, Manaton, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
A road climbs from Bovey Tracey and the National Trust's Parke Estate to Trendlebere Down. From there, it continues to Becky Falls Woodland Park, Water/Freeland and Manaton. At the bottom of Trendlebere Down there's a byway open to all traffic that runs through Houndtor Wood to Water/Freelan...
Shavercombe Tor and Waterfall, Sheepstor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
Shavercombe Tor is a relatively small collection of outcrops and granite boulders on the western bank of Shavercombe Brook on the edge of Dartmoor's high south moor. The tor is near a waterfall and pool that are popular with Dartmoor enthusiasts and wild swimmers. We've positioned Shave...
Haytor Rocks, Haytor Vale, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
Dartmoor National Park's most famous tor Haytor Rocks is probably Dartmoor National Park's most famous tor. It can get exceptionally busy on the rocks during the summer months, on long bank holiday weekends or after snow owing to its location on the eastern fringe of Dartmoor above populate...
Haytor Quarry, Haytor Vale, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
One of a number of quarries on the moorland around Haytor Rocks. Granite was quarried here in the 18th and 19th centuries. A granite tramway was built in 1820 to transport the granite down to Stover Canal. From there, quarried granite was taken by water to the Teign Estuary and Teignmouth. Granit...
Buckfastleigh Moor, Scorriton, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
[Main photo: walking the Two Moors Way from Holne and Scorriton to Buckfastleigh Moor] Buckfastleigh Moor, the highest point on Dartmoor’s south moor and the Two Moors Way Ryder’s Hill is the highest point on Dartmoor’s south moor. Buckfastleigh Moor runs from this hi...
Marchant's Cross, Meavy, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
Marchant's Cross is an impressive Dartmoor cross near Meavy and Lovaton south of Burrator Dam/Burrator Reservoir. Zoom in on the accompanying Google map to see its location. According to the Dartmoor expert Eric Hemery, Marchant's Cross lies on the Plympton to Tavistock Monastic Route. He describ...
Best Dartmoor Walks With Kids, Dartmoor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
How difficult are Dartmoor walks with kids? Dartmoor is a great starter National Park for kids. The terrain is relatively gentle. Our youngest daughter wandered up to High Willhays (the highest point on Dartmoor and in southern England) when she was four. Every year, children as young as 13* comp...
Templer Way, Dartmoor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
Haytor Rocks is, arguably, Dartmoor National Park's most famous tor. The rocks rise from Haytor Down which is peppered with disused quarries and crossed by an old tramway on which granite was transported from the moors down to Stover Canal and then to the coast at Teignmouth from where the rock was...
Ditsworthy Warren House Ford, Sheepstor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
Ditsworthy Warren House is a ruin on Dartmoor. It was used in Steven Spielberg's film 'War Horse'. Just south west of the ruin is a ford, or crossing place, on the River Plym. This is Ditsworthy Warren House Ford. We've positioned Ditsworthy Warren House Ford on Google maps. Zoom in on the 'Satel...
Tavistock Canal Northern Tunnel Portal, Tavistock, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
If you zoom in on the 'Satellite' setting of the accompanying Google map, you'll be at the entrance of a tunnel that passes under a patchwork of fields that covers Morwell Down. This entrance is called the Tavistock Canal Northern Tunnel Portal. Move the map south west and you'll come to M...
Red Lake, South Brent, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
On Dartmoor, a lake is a stream or brook. Red Lake is a small stream high on Dartmoor's south plateau through which many ancient and modern travel routes pass and around which there are a very high number of points of interest. We've positioned Red Lake on Google maps so zoom in on the 'Satellite...
Bagtor Down, Haytor Vale, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)
As you climb the B3387 from Bovey Tracey past Haytor Vale to the high moors, Haytor Down runs north of the road and Bagtor Down to the south. Note that the River Sig rises on Bagtor Down from two boggy sections of moorland. The western section is called Bag Tor Marsh and is best avoided. If you...