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Haytor, also known as Haytor Rocks, [1] Hay Tor, or occasionally Hey Tor, [2] is a granite tor on the eastern edge of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon. Location
The Haytor Granite Tramway (also called Heytor [1]) was a tramway built to convey granite from Haytor Down, Dartmoor, Devon to the Stover Canal. It was very unusual in that the track was formed of granite sections, shaped to guide the wheels of horse-drawn wagons .
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.
Haytor Granite Tramway – early tramway with stone rails; ran from quarries at Haytor to Stover Canal; Haytor Rock – prominent tor and viewpoint between Bovey Tracey and Widecombe; Hay Tor – less prominent outcrop behind Haytor Rock when viewed from the south. Popular spot for rock climbing due to its large cliff face and relative ease of ...
Those sedimentary basins relevant to Dartmoor's story are i) the South Devon Basin, the rocks formed within which now stretch around the southern margins of the national park from Padstow via Plymouth to Torquay, ii) the Tavy Basin stretching from Tintagel through Tavistock to Newton Abbot and iii) the Culm Basin which corresponds to the whole of mid Devon.
Granite at Haytor on Dartmoor Granite at Rough Tor on Bodmin Moor Granite outcrop at Land's End Granite at Trenemene, part of the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly The individual plutons that comprise the Cornubian Batholith can be broadly subdivided into five main lithologies: Two mica, Muscovite, Biotite, Tourmaline and Topaz granites, each ...
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James' son, George Templer built the Haytor Granite Tramway to connect his granite quarries at Haytor Rocks to the canal basin at Ventiford. It opened on 16 September 1820, [6] and for the next 40 years, the traffic in granite supplemented the ball clay trade. [7]