TORS OF DARTMOOR
a database of both lesser- & well-known rocks and outcrops
Longash Wood Tor A distinctly lesser known rockpile lies under the sprawling masses of Hucken Tor in Longash Wood but is sufficiently detached down the slope towards the River Walkham by some 300 metres or so to merit its own identity. Discovered by Paul Buck in early 2023, it is not to be confused with the similarly named but rather lowly Longash Tor that is set above the farmhouse at approximately half a mile to the north and east of here at SX 5506 7444, as this much lower pile is an entirely different beast consisting of at least three good sized outcrops.  It can be reached by leaving the public bridlepath south of Little Wonder Bridge and before reaching the Rock Basins at Hucken Tor that are marked on Ordnance Survey maps. Descend gradually through trees towards the river, minding your step as you traverse across mossy granite boulders. As the sound of the rushing water increases the closer you get, the first of the three higher outcrops is encountered. Although appearing as totally secluded and rarely visited, there is nonetheless some evidence of recent human activity in the two caves that are formed amid the rocks. The main attraction is without doubt the centre pile that from the south appears as a giant overhang propped on a smaller rock. Condemned to perpetual twilight even in the daytime the tor's substance is scattered across the steepening hillside under a canopy of oak trees.  A fourth outcrop lies further down the slope, but this outlier is within inaccessible private enclosures behind a fence. That said it is easily the least impressive of the group presenting as a somewhat scruffy vegetation covered pile that is not really in keeping with the ones above in either its shape or interest. 
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