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This wonderful tor is the highest on Dartmoor that is not granite. The rock is, quite on the contrary to its name, very dark and angular, with white lichen somewhat giving the tor’s name some credence. Views are spectacular from this rubble of rocks, and encircling the summit is one of Dartmoor’s oldest settlements, a Neolithic hillfort.

Anna Eliza Bray gives the alternative names of Peter Tor and Peterstone Rock for the eminence, almost certainly because it is not too far from Peter Tavy. Whittor may have also been struck by lightning, the summit rock (which is challenging to climb) looking rather blasted.

Reference:

• Bray, Mrs. Anna Eliza (1836): A description of the part of Devonshire bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy

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