This is one of three high altitude oak woodlands on Dartmoor, the other two being Wistmans Wood and Piles Copse. As with the other two, the trees in the copse are smaller than normal due to the environment and the ground beneath them is a carpet of lichens and mosses. The woodland is managed by Natural England and looked after carefully due to the amount of rare plants growing within the woods. The copse itself sits right beside the West Okement river underneath Black Tor in northern Dartmoor.

Black-a-tor Copse with Black Tor above

Black-a-tor Copse bottom left then West Okement runs along the base of the valley

Difficult to pick out but looking from the Slipper Stones across to Black-a-tor Copse in the shady clouds