Walks from Okehampton station
5 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Okehampton — the closest is Yes Tor at 4.4 km, the highest High Willhays at 622 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
- Station code
- OKE
- Grid reference
- SX592944
- Coordinates
- 50.73238, -3.99621
- Locality
- Okehampton
- Operator
- Dartmoor Railway
- Entries & exits
- 347,920 · #1,078 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 5
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
About Okehampton station
Okehampton is the terminus of the Dartmoor line, serving the town of Okehampton in Devon. The station closed to regular traffic in 1972; heritage and occasional mainline services ran between 1997 and 2019, and regular services resumed in November 2021. It recorded 347,920 passenger journeys between April 2024 and March 2025.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Okehampton railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 5 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Okehampton is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes Tor | 618.6 m | NuttallTrail 100 | 4.4 km | S |
| 2 | Cosdon Hill | 550.5 m | Dewey | 5.3 km | SE |
| 3 | High Willhays | 622 m | HewittNuttallHistoric County Top+4 | 5.4 km | S |
| 4 | Steeperton Tor | 532 m | Dewey | 6.3 km | SE |
| 5 | Amicombe Hill | 585.8 m | Dewey | 7.6 km | S |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Okehampton before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Long-distance paths from this station
4 waymarked long-distance routes pass within 2 km of the station — a made line to follow out of the door, or a way to link this station to the next one down the line.
| Route | Total length | From station |
|---|---|---|
| Devonshire Heartland Way | 71 km | passes the station |
| Dartmoor Way | 152 km | 0.4 km |
| Tarka Trail | 149 km | 0.4 km |
| Mary Michael Pilgrims Way | 105 km | 0.6 km |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the station computed by OpenFell.
Daylight here today
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Okehampton on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps