Book of the Month April 2025

Rock Idols: Dartmoor's Wild Tors

An essential guide to 28 Tors. This is a personal and poignent book, a series of walks that cover such a rich seam of emotions, from joy to loss. Adventuring to remote places and recounting familiar and better known sites. Visit Dartmoor with this book to hand, your life will be richer for it.

Fantastical yet natural, Dartmoor’s 280-million-year-old tors are among the most iconic landmarks in Southern Britain. Victorian antiquarians described them as ‘rock idols’, believing them to be stone deities worshipped by the Druids. Thousands of years before that, they inspired our ancestors who built ceremonial stone rows and circles aligned with them. Today, the tors are loved by walkers, climbers and locals, who visit in their thousands every year.