Dartmoor: The Tors out of Shipley Bridge

River Avon at Shipley Gorge

Note: Walk undertaken in December 2018, blog post slightly rewritten in January 2021.

I have been wanting to revisit this area for some time, as it has always been a popular family stroll, up to the dam and back. But this time, I was going to bag all the tors and rocks north of Shipley Bridge.

Dartmoor: Around the River Avon (Part 2)

Black Tor (Brent Down)

Continuing from Part 1, I pushed on to Waterfoot Clatter (SX 680 653), an area of clitter first described by Eric Hemery, although only briefly on page 317 (it is also labelled in a photograph on page 314). All I can say is the rocks are more impressive than Ryder's Rocks across the river, and the view of Avon Dam is quite spectacular.

Dartmoor: Shipley Bridge to Ivybridge (Part 1)

Ryder's Rocks

This was going to be quite a big walk for me, and it took in a lot of tors on the featureless south moor. But I love it like that sometimes, and it enabled me to just forget any issues in my life and breathe in the fresh air.