Things To Do near Granite Way Cycles Hire

Broad Barrow, Widecombe in the Moor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)

Numerous cairns and barrows run along the spine of the vast Hamel Down. Broad Barrow sits on the highest ground 532 metres above sea level. The views up top are awesome. It's a particularly impressive place when the heather and gorse flower purple and yellow in early Autumn. A barrow is a mound o...

Bellever Settlements, Bellever, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)

Postbridge National Park Visitor Centre There's a superb Dartmoor prehistory exhibition on the second floor of Postbridge National Park Visitor Centre. A section of the exhibition covers Dartmoor settlements. We'd recommend popping into the visitor centre before exploring Bellever's prehisto...

Brentor Hillfort, North Brentor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)

Brentor Hillfort is one of Dartmoor National Park's many attractions and we'll be adding more information shortly.

Best Dartmoor Picnic Spots, Dartmoor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)

Popular picnic spots with public toilet in the area Spitchwick (Deeper Marsh/Spitchwick Common). Picnic on the bank of the River Dart. This is the most popular picnic spot on Dartmoor. Beautiful, great for wild swimming but gets packed on sunny days. There's a public toilet at the New Bridge/Newb...

Roos Tor, Merrivale, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)

Roos is the northernmost tor in a cluster of outcrops on the western side of Dartmoor National Park. It's near the stunning and much photographed Great Staple Tor and overlooks Langstone Moor with its stone circle, standing stone and stone row. Great Mis Tor dominates to the east. The view north alo...

Bellever Tor & Forest Circular Walk, Bellever, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)

Bellever Tor Explore the heart of Dartmoor around Bellever Tor. The tor is a local beauty spot known for its excellent panoramic views. We describe lots of different routes to this beauty spot in our Bellever Tor listing. The circular walk outlined below takes in forest, moorland and tors...

Berry Pound, Widecombe in the Moor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 11 miles away)

'On the Widecombe side of the little stream, which runs through a hollow, is the enclosure known as Berry Pound ... The area covered is very much smaller than that occupied by Grim's Pound, and the vallum is low and not of great width'.

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.

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.

Figgie Daniel, North Bovey, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)

Bowerman's Nose is, arguably, the most famous stack of granite in Dartmoor National Park. It rises from a jumble of rock at the north west side of Hayne Down. Hayne Down is one of a number of islands of moorland surrounded by farmland and fields near the main mass of Dartmoor's high moo...

Mardon Down Cairn Circle, Moretonhampstead, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)

There are many heavily weathered cairns on Mardon Down. In addition, there's a particularly fine cairn circle.

Single Barrow, Widecombe in the Moor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)

The Dartmoor expert William Crossing writes 'this tumulus was opened in 1873 by the late Mr. C. Spence Bate, and was found to consist of earth with the exception of a low hedge of stones which encircled it, and a low cairn in the centre. About six feet from the latter a small heap of burnt human...

Bellever Tor, Bellever, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)

Look at the Ordnance Survey Explorer OL28 'Dartmoor' map and you'll see Bellever Tor marked as a beauty spot providing panoramic views of the National Park. Situated in the heart of Dartmoor overlooking Bellever Forest, the tor is near Postbridge and its famous Postbridge Clapper Bridge. Given...

Mardon Down Giant's Grave, Moretonhampstead, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)

According to Phil Newman in his excellent 'The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor', 'it was Dean Jeremiah Milles of Exeter, President of the Society of Antiquaries, who first undertook archaeological fieldwork on Dartmoor barrows in 1752 on Mardon Down (Grinsell 1978, 87), and the literature of the early...

Mardon Down, Moretonhampstead, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 12 miles away)

There are a number of islands of open access moorland rising from surrounding farmland just south of the Teign Gorge and Fingle Woods in the north eastern section of Dartmoor National Park. The largest is Mardon Down. At Mardon Down, two domes of moor are connected by a thin strip of land in whic...