Sharpitor, Lustleigh Cleave; One of East Dartmoor's Grandest Tors

Sharpitor outcrop on summit ridge

For some reason this evening I feel compelled to devote a blog post to a single, but absolutely magnificent tor. Sharpitor is that rockpile, a humongous ridge of rock standing proud at the far south-east end of the Lustleigh Cleave high ground. My main reasoning for dedicating this post to the tor is that it is, in my view, one of the most underrated of all tors on Dartmoor, and that is in spite of the fact that it is very clearly named on Ordnance Survey (OS) Maps.

Dartmoor: Lustleigh to Holwell Rocks (Part 1)

Harton Rock

This was going to be a mega tor walk, hence the 'Part 1', taking in 19 new tors and rocks for me - surely the most new ones I've done in a single walk for a long, long time?! I had been meaning to do this walk ages ago, last year in fact, but the difficult terrain had put me off going alone. I saw this walk as an opportunity, given the time of year when the bracken is low, to attempt it alone and see how I get on, hiking more miles than I was anticipating; almost 11.