Black Tor Falls (O7)

We only had a couple of hours to walk on Dartmoor today so we planned to follow the walk around Black Tor in "One hour stroll on Dartmoor" by John Hayward.  We parked the car in the lay by at the foot of the Tor and walked up.  The Logan Stone was impressive. From one side it looked as if the top stones were balancing very precariously on the bottom stone.


As we walked down to the river we came upon a wotsit, and saw another one beside the river. Wotsits are covers placed over boreholes that were dug when they were looking for a reservoir site.


The ground was still very wet in places and there was a lot of water coming down the river making it very pretty.  There was several smaller falls before we came to the main Black Tor Falls.




The blowing  house was very clear to see. 


We walked on down the river, but could not see how to cross the river further down, so we turned back and walked along Hart Tor Brook which also had water rushing over boulders.


We crossed to the other side of the river Meavy and did plan to walk down to the aqueduct, but it was beginning to rain so we returned to our car, a good decision as by the time we were back to the road it was raining hard.

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