So I finially hit Hay Tor after many months on The Great Tor Explore. It was a quick Sunday walk from the carparks up the old cut steps to the top of Hay Tor. We also went for a quick amble across to explore haytor quarries and then across a very boggy bit of ground to Smallcombe Rocks and for an explore around the Haytor Quarries. All in all about 2.5km!
Walk 17 was on 29.10.2012, it was a walk heading North of Postbridge. It was myself and my friend Jake, it was half term so we decided to make the most of it and head out to bag a few more Tors. unfortunately the weather was not on our side, it was horrendously wet, driving rain and we where pretty much soaked through by the first Tor. It was so wet that my phone got water damaged while inside my bag! The walk comes in at 10.5km and 210m of ascent. I’m sure the walk would be very pleasant if it wasn’t so wet under and above foot.
Start at Postbridge car park (SX 647 789), head down the road towards Inn over the bridge, which is close to the old clapper bridge. Just after the bridge there’s a gate on the left which can lead you up an obvious path next to the river. Follow the path by the river until the first tor comes into view on the hill on the right hand side of the path. The first tor is Hartland Tor at SX 643 789 which is a nice collection of rocks on the hillside. The next tor, Stannon Tor (SX 646 912) is quite clear up to the north, you can easily contour round staying high past a sheepfold. The ground in between was very wet and waterlogged.
From Stannon Tor we headed towards the very clear settlement walls at SX 647 816, and stayed high. The next high point is Assycombe Hill on the edge of the forest at SX 664 823. There is a fairly steep little hill up to the top of Assycombe Hill and on top is a standing stone, near the edge of the forest.
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