Great Links Tor and Kitty Tor

This is a second go at a walk I tried a few weeks ago, it was the end of a good week of weather and Saturday was forecast as the last decent day. In the end it turned out to be very hazy and the cloud came over towards the end. However it was finally good to get up Great Links Tor and I extended the original route a bit to add in Kitty Tor and Bleak House. The walk back over Doe Tor is a lovely way down, its a simple tor to get to the top of and there’s a small bridge over the Doetor Brook to take you back towards the bridge over the River Lyd.

Start – Lydford

Route – River Lyd – Little Links Tor – Great Links Tor – Higher Dunna Goat Tor – Lower Dunna Goat Tor – Green Tor – Kitty Tor – Bleak House – Chat Tor – Doe Tor – Doetor Brook Bridge – River Lyd

Distance – 7.5 miles Start time – 9.45am Time taken – 5hrs Highest Point – Great Links Tor 586m

Weather – Lots of hazy sun but clouding over towards the end

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Looking back to the car park and hazy views to Cornwall

Still much better than the last time I was here

The stepping stones can be crossed this time as well, Arms Tor behind

Looking back as I climb to Little Links Tor

Great Nodden to the left……..

…..and Little Links Tor ahead

On Little Links Tor looking back to Arms Tor and Brat Tor

A short distance uphill I reach Great Links Tor trig point

Looking down to Little Links Tor with Great Nodden behind

Great Links Tor summit with the Dunna Goat Tors next on the list

Higher Dunna Goat first, with Green Tor opposite and Bleak House below

Barely a stones throw to Lower Dunna Goat, Hare Tor away to the right

Looking back to Great Links Tor from Lower Dunna Goat

Bleak House across the Rattlebrook, Green Tor right and Kitty Tor is the hill behind

Lower and Higher Dunna Goat from Green Tor

Chat Tor in the distance, the Rattlebrook is in the dip between here and there

After a boggy trudge across Amicombe Hill from Green Tor I arrived at Kitty Tor, High Willhays now in view

In view from most of this walk is Great Links Tor. I’d walked pretty much straight across this part of Amicombe Hill, I probably should have followed the path north and then east, but I thought straight lining was better

Lints Tor below from Kitty Tor

Bleak House with Lower Dunna Goat behind. The walk beside the Rattlebrook to get here was pretty soggy with my foot disappearing on at least two occasions