The end of a list and one which I’d probably only found out about when I was actually half way through completing it. The Dartmoor 365 list will take you everywhere across Dartmoor and I mean everywhere. Villages, tors, woodlands, valleys, churches, ruins, streams, pools, bridges, crosses, farms and one particular square with nothing in it (Wilderness – G7). It is just a brilliant list, climbing mountains or tors has a familiarity about it, not this list. You will need to walk lanes to get all these spots, in fact there were lots of walks that I did that didn’t once set foot on a moorland pasture, and some where you are miles from a road. I’m a bit sorry to see the end of this list, I loved walking the lanes and looking at the houses and the views back to the tors. I also loved heading off into Dartmoor proper and picking off a square by visiting something that was in-between tors or off to the side of the normal path. This last walk was the Walla Brook, a stream that wriggles across Gidleigh Common, boggy in places and very boggy in others. We’d just had the driest summer for quite a while so it seemed a good idea to head out on a sultry day to finish the list off. As I was heading out and across the Common, I figured that Watern Tor needed a revisit as I’d not been since 2018! I then headed up to Whitehorse Hill and then a loop around picking off other tors as I went, finally finishing at Scorhill Circle. As for what’s next on my list of to do’s, I’ve got the Coastal path and Wainwright to finish and lets face it I might as well do the 365 all again!

Start – Gidleigh parking

Route – Scorhill Tor – Tolmen Stone – Walla Brook Clapper – Walla Brook – Watern Tor – Walla Brook Head – Whitehorse Hill – Hangingstone Hill – Wild Tor – Gallaven Mire – Gallaven Ford – Ruelake Pit – Rival Tor – Gidleigh Common – Scorhill Stone Circle – Gidleigh parking

Distance – 9 1/2miles    Start time – 9:45am   Time taken – 5hrs 15mins  Highest Point – Hangingstone Hill 604m

Weather – Some cloud, sunny and very humid