Great Links Tor

About Great Links Tor

Great Links Tor is a prominent tor on the north-western flank of Dartmoor in Devon, visible for a considerable distance on the approach to the moor from the west. One of the highest points on Dartmoor, it is dominated by a monolithic granite outcrop some 40 feet (12 metres) high.

An Ordnance Survey triangulation point sits on a block to the west of the main outcrop, and this is the point most visitors climb to; the highest outcrop itself cannot be reached without a rock climb, the easiest line being a chimney on its eastern side. Nearby lie the remains of the Rattlebrook Peat Works at Rattlebrook Head, together with the ruins of the aptly named Bleak House.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Great Links Tor (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 50.662, -4.052. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock tor by trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

22-Dec-07

Drop measured from

SX578857 · 477 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Great Links Tor is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Willhays (622 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 477 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks