Much of central Dartmoor is an uninhabited wilderness - almost free of villages, farms, trees and roads - but it is of outstanding environmental value, functioning mainly as a stock-rearing area and as a military training ground. From this mass rise Dartmoor's rivers, including the Lyd, Tavy, East and West Dart, Bovey, Teign, Taw and Okement, nearly all of which flow southwards to the English Channel.
The large numbers of tors that dominate Dartmoor are the remnants of hard
masses of granite, drastically reduced in size and moulded into their present
shapes by millions of years of weatherings.
Bowerman's Nose, Hound Tor
and Haytor Rocks are famous examples included on these walks. Cranbrook Castle,
an Iron Age hill fort, is also featured, as are Castle Drogo - a 20th century
castle; Lydford Gorge - an almost perpendicuar ravine of rocks, cliffs, trees
and waterfalls; and attractive moorland towns and villages such as
Moretonhampstead, North Bovey and Widecombe in the Moor. There is also an
opportunity to cross an ancient clapper bridge over the East Dart at
Postbridge.
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