Showing posts with label Broomage Tor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Broomage Tor. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Dartmoor: Rediscovering Broomage Tor, and visiting other tors in the vicinity

Paul Rendell at Broomage Tor

This could perhaps be called one of those Dartmoor irritants, and certainly one for tor baggers if you're aware of it. Broomage Tor has never, until now, been located which surprised me given William Crossing mentions it in 100 Years (1901), as do Dr. Peter Sanders and Alan Watson in their Tors 380 List (1996). So why has this elusive rockpile been forgotten? Does it even exist? We are amid clay workings, after all. It only made sense for me to meet Paul Rendell, editor of the popular Dartmoor News. Both intrigued about this conundrum, we met up for the first time to go in search of this forgotten tor.