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This is a list of Dartmoor tors and hills. Dartmoor is a National Park in South West England that contains many granite outcrops of many different sizes. The main authority (other than the OS map) is "Dartmoor Tors and Rocks" by Ken Ringwood.

Birch Tor Dartmoor
Birch Tor, with the Warren House Inn in the distance
Vixen Tor
Vixen Tor, with Great Mis Tor beyond

A–B

  • A Head Stone
  • Aish Ridge
  • Aish Tor
  • Aller Brook Tor (Outcrop)
  • Amicombe Hill (Kitty Tor upper)
  • Arch Tor
  • Arms Tor
  • Ashbury Hill
  • Ashbury Tor
  • Assycombe Hill
    (boundary marker; no tor visible)
  • Ausewell Rocks
  • Bag Tor
  • Bagga Tor
  • Barn Hill Rocks
  • Barracott Tor
  • Batteridge Hill
  • Beacon Hill
  • Beacon Rocks (Ugborough Beacon)
  • Beardown Tors
  • Bee Tor
  • Bel Tor
  • Bell Tor
  • Bellever Tor
  • Belstone Tors
  • Bench Tor or Benjy Tor
  • Bennah Hill
  • Bearacleave Tor
  • Berra Tor
  • Billy's Tor
  • Big Rock
  • Birch Tor
  • Black Dunghill
  • Black Hill (2)
    • NW Dartmoor (584 m)
    • E Dartmoor (412m) near Manaton at
  • Black Ridge
  • Black Rock
  • Black Rocks
  • Black Tor (4)
    • Near Shipley Tor In the south of the moor .
    • Near High Willhays In the NW of the moor
    • Near Walkhampton In the west of the moor .
    • Near Butterdon Hill, Ivybridge
  • Blacka Tor
  • Blackadon Tor
  • Blackalder Tor
  • Blackingstone Rock
  • Blackslade Rock
  • Blakey Tor or Colden Tor
  • Bonehill Rocks
  • Bottor Rock
  • Boulters Tor
  • Bovey Rock
  • Bowden Tor
  • Bowerman's Nose
  • Bracken Tor (hill)
  • Braddon Tor Also known as Hoax Tor, Samuel's Tor and Broad Down Tor.
  • Branscombe's Loaf
  • Brat Tor (Widgery Tor, Lur Tor or Brai Tor also)
  • Brazen Tor or Brouzen Tor
  • Brent Fore Hill
  • Brent Hill
  • Brent Tor
  • Brimage Tor
  • Brimhill Tor
  • Broad Down
  • Broad Rock
  • Broada Stones
  • Brousentor
  • Buckland Beacon
  • Buck Tor
  • Buckator
  • Bullaton Rock
  • Burrator
  • Butterdon Hill (2)
    • Near Teign Gorge (Cranbrook Castle)
    • Near Western Beacon
  • Buttern Hill
  • Buttern Rocks

C–E

  • Cadworthy Tor or Oxen Tor
  • Callisham Tor
  • Cater's Beam
  • Cathanger Rock
  • Cator
  • Calveslake Tor
  • Chase Wood Rocks
  • Chat Tor
  • Church Rock
  • Cherrybrook Rocks
  • Chinkwell Tor
  • Chub Tor
  • Claig Tor
  • Claret Tor
  • Clay Tor
  • Cleave Tor
  • Cleft Rock
  • Click Tor
  • Cocks Hill
  • Coffin Stone
  • Collard Tor
  • Combe Tor
  • Combeshead Tor or Combshead Tor
  • Combestone Tor or Coombestone Tor
  • Commons Hill
  • Conies Down Tor
  • Coombe Tor
  • Corndon Tor
  • Corndon North Tor
  • Corn Ridge
  • Cosdon Hill or Cosdon Beacon
  • Courton Tor
  • Cox Tor (Cocks' Tor).
  • Cramber Tor
  • Crane Hill
  • Crane Tor
  • Creber's Rock
  • Criptor (Crip Tor)
  • Cripdon Down Tors
  • Crockern Tor
  • Crow Tor
  • Crownhill Tor
  • Cuckoo Rock
  • Curtery Clitters
  • Cut Hill
  • Devil's Tor
  • Dewerstone Hill (The Dewerstone or Dewerstone Rock)
  • Dinger Tor
  • Doe Tor
  • Down Ridge
  • Down Tor
  • Dream Tor
  • Eagle Rock
  • Easdon Hill
  • Easdon South Tor
  • Easdon Tor (Includes Whooping Rock)
  • East Hill, South of Okehampton
  • East Mill Tor
  • East Tor
  • Eastern Tor
  • Eastern White Barrow
  • Ellimore Tor
  • Elsford Rock
  • Emsworthy Rocks

F–G

  • Feather Tor
  • Figgie Daniel (On Easdon Down)
  • Fitches Holt
  • Flat Tor
  • Foggintor . Quarried out.
  • Fordsland Ledge
  • Fox Tor (2)
  • Foxworthy Tor
  • Frenchbeer Rock
  • Fur Tor (or Vurretor)
  • Fur Tor (Walkhampton)
  • Furze Tor
  • Ger Tor
  • Giant's Hill
  • Gibbet Hill
  • Gibby Combe Tor
  • Gidleigh Tor
  • Gipsy Rock
  • Gladstone Rock
  • Goat Rock
  • Gradner Rocks
  • Grea Tor (Not shown on all modern maps, though nearby Greator Rocks is.)
  • Greator Rocks
  • Great Combe Tors
  • Great Hound Tor
  • Great Gnats' Head
  • Great Kneeset
  • Great Links Tor
  • Great Mis Tor
  • Great Nodden
  • Great Rock
  • Great Staple Tor
  • Great Trowlesworthy Tor
  • Green Hill
  • Green Tor
  • Gren Tor
  • Gripper's Hill
  • Gutter Tor


Tors visible looking north from near the head of the Becka Brook, eastern Dartmoor

H–K

  • Hameldown Beacon
  • Hameldown Tor
  • Hammerslake Tor
  • Hampster Tor or part of High Willhays
  • Hangershell Rock
  • Hangingstone Hill
  • Hare Tor
  • Hart Tor (2)
    • Walkhampton Common
    • Okehampton Common
  • Hartland Tor
  • Harton Chest (Lustleigh Cleave)
  • Hartor Tors (also Hart Tor, Harter Tors) and
  • Hawk's Tor
  • Hayne Down Tors
  • Haytor or Hay Tor (also Hey Tor; Haytor Rocks)
  • Heckwood Tor
  • Hedge Down Tor
  • Heltor Rock
  • Hemstone Rocks
  • Hen Tor
  • Hepstock Rocks
  • Herne Hole Tor
  • Hexton Tor
  • High Tor
  • Higher Dunnagoat Tor
  • Higher Tor
  • Higher White Tor
  • High Willhays (or High Willes, High Willows, Highest Tor, Hight Will).
  • Hingston Hill
  • Hingston Rocks
  • Hockinston Tor
  • Hole Rock
  • Holne Ridge
  • Hollow Tor (2)
    • Near Top Tor
    • Princetown
  • Holwell Tor
  • Holwell Rocks
  • Homerton Hill
  • Honeybag Tor
  • Hookney Tor
  • Hound Tor (2)
    • Hound Tor or Round Tor (Throwleigh)
    • S of Manaton See Great Hound Tor.
  • Huccaby Tor
  • Hucken Tor
  • Hunt Tor
  • Hunts Tor
  • Hunter's Tor (2)
    • Teign Gorge
    • Lustleigh Cleave
  • Hurston Castle Tor
  • Hyner Rocks or Hyner Tor, Hennock
  • Ingra Tor
  • Ivy Tor
  • Kelly Mine Tor
  • Kennick Rocks
  • Kennon Hill
  • Kent's Tor
  • Kes Tor or Kestor Rock
  • King Tor
  • King's Tor
  • Kingshead Tor
  • Kit Rocks
  • Kitty Tor
  • Knattaborough Tor

L–M

  • Ladybrook Tor or Ottery Tor
  • Lakehead Hill
  • Langworthy Tor
  • Langcombe Hill
  • Latchell Tor
  • Laughter Tor (Lough Tor)
  • Launceston Tor or Landscore Tor
  • Leather Tor or Lether Tor
  • Lee Moor (trig point)
  • Leedon Tor or Leeden Tor
  • Legis Tor
  • Leigh Tor
  • Leighon Tor
  • Leusdon Tor
  • Leusdon Lower Tor
  • Linhay Hill
  • Lints Tor
  • Littaford Tors
  • Little Bee Tor
  • Little Boulters Tor
  • Little Combe Tor
  • Little Cox Tor
  • Little Crow Tor
  • Little Down Tor
  • Little Emsworthy
  • Little Gnats' Head
  • Little Fox Tor (or Yonder Tor)
  • Little Hare Tor
  • Little Hen Tor
  • Little Holwell Tor
  • Little Hound Tor
  • Little Kes Tor
  • Little King's Tor
  • Little Kneeset
  • Little Leusdon Tor
  • Little Links Tor
  • Little Longaford Tor
  • Little Mis Tor (Historically also called Wain Tor)
  • Little Pew Tor
  • Little Roos Tor
  • Little Sharp Tor
  • Little Staple Tor
  • Little Tor
  • Little Trowlesworthy Tor
  • Little White Tor
  • Lizwell Rock
  • Logwell Rock
  • Longaford Tor
  • Longash Tor or just Longash
  • Longstone Hill
  • Longtimber Tor
  • Lover's Leap Next to Landscore Tor.
  • Low Man Tor (Low Man or Lowman Crag; part of Haytor Rocks)
  • Lower Arms Tor
  • Lower Leather Tor
  • Lower Leighon Tor
  • Lower Logwell
  • Lower Tor
  • Lowery Tor
  • Lowton Rocks
  • Lower Dunnagoat Tor
  • Lower White Tor
  • Luckey Tor
  • Luxton Tor
  • Lydford Tor
  • Lynch Tor
  • Maiden Hill
  • Maiden Tor
  • Manaton Rocks
  • Manga Hill
  • Manga Rock
  • Mardon Down
  • Mel Tor
  • Meldon Hill (Includes Tunnaford Rocks)
  • Metheral Hill
  • Merripit Hill
  • Mid Tor
  • Middle Staple Tor
  • Middle Tor
  • Middleworth Tor
  • Mill Bottom
  • Mis Tors See Great Mis and Little Mis Tors

N–R

  • Naker's Hill
  • Narrator
  • Narrow Tor
  • Nattadon Common
  • Nat Tor (2)
    • Burrator Reservoir
    • Nat Tor, Lydford
  • North Hessary Tor
  • North Tor (or part of Bench Tor as collective of outcrops)
  • Oddy Tor (or Nympenhole and Viper Tor)
  • Oke Tor
  • Okement Hill (or Ockment)
  • Old Hill
  • Old House Rocks
  • Over Tor
  • Parson's Brown Loaf
  • Pathfields (Outcrop)
  • Peek Hill
  • Pepperdon Down
  • Penn Beacon
  • Pew Tor
  • Pil Tor
  • Pin Tor
  • Pinchaford Ball
  • Pixey Copse Tor
  • Pizwell Tor
  • Plane Tor
  • Pork Hill
  • Prowtytown Rocks
  • Prince Hall Rocks
  • Puggiestone
  • Puper's Hill
  • Quickbeam Hill
  • Rabbits Tor
  • Raddick Hill
  • Ramshorn Down
  • Ramsley Hill
  • Rattlebrook Hill
  • Raven Rock (2)
    • Dart
    • Walkham
  • Raven's Tor (2)
    • Lustleigh
    • Lydford Gorge
  • Reedy Hill (on the border)
  • Rippon Tor
  • Riddon Ridge
  • Rival Tor (Rippator, Rifle Tor)
  • Rock Copse Tors
  • Roborough Rock
  • Rook Tor
  • Roos Tor (Roose Tor, Rulestorre, Rolls Tor)
  • Rouge Tor
  • Rough Tor (2)
    • N of Two Bridges
    • Burrator Reservoir
  • Round Hill (3)
  • Round Hill Tor
  • Rowden Tor
  • Row Tor (Rowtor)
  • Rowdon Rock
  • Royal Hill
  • Royal Tor
  • Rugglestone Rock
  • Rundlestone Tor
  • Ryder's Hill
  • Ryder's Rocks

S

  • Saddlesborough (cairn)
  • Saddle Rock
  • Saddle Tor
  • Sampford Tor
  • Sandy Hole Rocks
  • Scarey Tor
  • Scatter Rock
  • Scobetor (Scobitor)
  • Scorhill Tor
  • Set Tor
  • Setters Tor
  • Shadyback Tor
  • Shapley Tor
  • Shaptor Rock, Bovey Tracey
  • Shaptor Woods (Outcrops)
  • Sharp Tor (6).
    • Dartmeet
    • Lydford
    • Peter Tavy
    • Tavy Cleave
    • Ugborough Moor
    • Widecombe
  • Sharpitor (also Sharp Tor) (2)
    • Leather Tor
    • Lustleigh
  • Shaugh Beacon
  • Shavercombe Tor
  • Sheeps Tor
  • Shell Top (or Shiel Top, Shell Tor)
  • Shelstone Tor
  • Shilstone Tor
  • Shipley Tor
  • Shovel Stone
  • Sittaford Tor (or Siddaford Tor)
  • Skir Hill
  • Smeardon Down Tors
  • Snappers Tor
  • Snowdon
  • Sonny Copse Tor
  • Sourton Tors
  • Southcott Rocks
  • South Hessary Tor
  • Smith Hill
  • Smallacombe Rocks
  • Standon Hill
  • Stannon Tor
  • Staple Tors or Steeple Tor - see Little Staple Tor, Middle Staple Tor and Great Staple Tor.
  • Steeperton Tor
  • Stenga Tor
  • Stinger's Hill
  • Stone Tor
  • Stonetor Hill
  • Stonelands Rocks
  • Stoneslade Tor
  • Stonelands Waste (The Grotto)
  • Strane Tor
  • Swell Tor . Quarried out.

T–Z

  • Tavy Cleave Tor or Cleeve
  • Ter Hill
  • The Nutcracker (Nutcracker's)
  • The Thirlstone (Thirlstone/Thurlstone)
  • Three Barrows
  • Thornworthy Tor
  • Tipleyhill
  • Tom's Hill
  • Top Tor
  • Thornworthy Tor
  • Town Wood Crags
  • Tor Rocks
  • Tors End Tor
  • Trenchford Rocks
  • Trendlebere Down Tors
  • Tristis Rock
  • Tunnaford Rocks (On the slopes of Meldon Hill.)
  • Tunhill Rocks
  • Udal Tor
  • Ugborough Beacon
  • Ugborough Moor (Tors and Cairns)
  • Vag Hill
  • Vixen Tor
  • Wacka Tor
  • Was Tor
  • Watchet Hill
  • Water Hill
  • Water Rock
  • Watern Tor (or Watern Borough)
  • Weatherdon Hill
  • Webburn Gap
  • Webburn Rock
  • Wedlake Tor
  • West Down Piles
  • Western White Barrow
  • Welstor Rock or Well's Tor (Higher and lower outcrops)
  • Western Beacon . The most southerly hill on Dartmoor.
  • West Mill Tor
  • White Hill
  • White Ridge
  • White Ridge Tor
  • White Tor . See also Higher White Tor and Lower White Tor
  • Whitehill Tor
  • Whitehorse Hill
  • Whittenknowles Rocks
  • Whooping Rock
  • Wild Tor
  • Willingstone Rock
  • Wind Tor
  • Winter Tor
  • Wittaburrow
  • Woodcock Hill
  • Wooder Goyle Rocks
  • Yannadon Crags
  • Yar Tor (Yartor)
  • Yealm Rocks
  • Yennadon Down
  • Yes Tor (2)
    • Yes Tor (the better-known one, near Okehampton , which has also been known as Eastor and Highest Tor in the past
    • Walkhampton Common (or East Tor) Called East Tor by Terry Bound, referred to Crossing. Not on the OS map and quite difficult to find:
  • Zeal Hill
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