Dartmoor National Park.
"Dartmoor is not mountainous, though there are within its borders a number of lofty hills, some of which attain an altitude of between 1,900 and 2,000 feet, and in two instances slightly exceed the latter height. The mean elevation of the Moor is computed to be about 1,400 feet. It is a table land, rising abruptly from the lowlands, and cleft in all directions by narrow valleys, through which course rapid streams over rocky beds. The hills are bold in outline, frequently precipitous, and often strewn with granite boulders, or crowned with a fantastically-shaped rock-pile, known as a tor. These latter are, indeed, the characteristic feature of the Dartmoor hills. Always striking in appearance, they are not infrequently of truly grand proportions."
Extract from "A hundred years on Dartmoor" (Open Library)
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