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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, with the Warren House Inn in the distance Vixen Tor, with Great Mis Tor beyond
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 22:41, 28 October 2010: 1,208 × 1,187 (892 KB): Nilfanion: improved NP boundary - sourced via ONS: 20:45, 26 September 2010
A typical distant view of Haytor as seen from the A38 road between Exeter and Plymouth. Idetordoune (1566), Ittor Doune (1687), Idetor (1737), Eator Down (1762) and Itterdown (1789) are a few recorded examples of earlier names by which Haytor was known. [4]
Main Street, Madison Avenue, King Street, Rancocas-Mount Holly Road, High Street CR 541 in Mount Holly: CR 693: 1.0 1.61 [6] Cedar Lane in Florence: Recovery Road [5] CR 543 in Mansfield Township: Designed by the New Jersey Department of Transportation as Cedar Lane Extension between CR 543 and CR 660 CR 694: 0.47 0.76 Assiscunk Creek in Burlington
Dartmoor includes the largest area of granite in Britain, with about 625 km 2 (241 sq mi) at the surface, though most of it is under superficial peat deposits. The granite (or more specifically adamellite) was intruded at depth as a pluton into the surrounding sedimentary rocks during the Carboniferous period, probably about 309 million years ago. [2]
Later, the road from Tavistock to Princetown was built, as well as the other roads that now cross the moor. Photograph of prisoners on a work party at Dartmoor Prison about 1900 He also proposed that a prison be built on Dartmoor to house the thousands of captives of the Napoleonic Wars and the later War of 1812 , who had become too numerous to ...
The Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) is a national park authority in England, legally responsible for Dartmoor in Devon. It came into existence in its present form in 1997, being preceded by a committee of Devon County Council (from 1951 to March 1974) and the Dartmoor National Park Committee from 1 April 1974.
The industrial archaeology of Dartmoor covers a number of the industries which have, over the ages, taken place on Dartmoor, and the remaining evidence surrounding them. Currently only three industries are economically significant, yet all three will inevitably leave their own traces on the moor: china clay mining, farming and tourism.