Walk · Devon

Haytor, Holwell and Hound Tor on the granite tramway

Haytor Vale

4.5MILES

2h 30mON FOOT

260mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 94% 6% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 52%Lane & track 42%Road with traffic 6%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Lower Haytor car park on the moor road between Bovey Tracey and Widecombe

Parking

Free roadside and gravel parking along the moor road at Haytor, hundreds of spaces in total but the lower and upper bays fill by 10am in summer

Directions to the start →

Four and a half miles between Dartmoor's two most famous tors, two and a half hours with 260 metres of climbing on the granite setts of the old quarry tramway, open moor grass and one rough drop to the Becka Brook. Start at the lower Haytor car park on the Bovey Tracey to Widecombe road, where roadside parking is free but strung out along the moor edge and full by ten on any fine day; the seasonal Haytor Hoppa bus links the tors on summer Saturdays. This is open access land with cattle, sheep and ponies loose across all of it, so dogs must be on a lead from 1 March to 31 July for lambing and ground-nesting birds and near stock at any time of year, the flooded quarry pools are deep and steep-sided, and the brook at the bottom is the only safe drinking water.

THE SMALL PRINTDartmoor access land: dogs must be kept under effective control and on a lead between 1 March and 31 July, and no more than six dogs may be brought onto access land. Cattle, sheep and ponies graze loose here all year and the quarry pools are deep with sheer sides.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

Livestock — leads on

REGION · DEVON

GRID · 50.5787, -3.7595

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.DARTMOOR.GOV.UK/ENJOY-DARTMOOR/PLANNING-YOUR-VISIT/VISITING-WITH-YOUR-DOG

Haytor, Holwell and Hound Tor on the granite tramway

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