Qualla: Haytor https://qualla.com/haytor en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/r/haytor-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Haytor https://qualla.com/haytor Haytor: Introduction https://qualla.com/haytor/ Photo credit Andrew Hackney, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1851 a Dr Croker complained, in print, that someone had installed a metal handrail on the summit of Haytor. The rail was there, he objected, "to enable the enervated and pinguedinous scions of humanity of this wonderful nineteenth century to gain the summit." Pinguedinous. Greasy or fatty. He was calling Victorian day-trippers too soft and chubby to climb a rock. The handrail came down in the 1960s when rust got the better of it, leaving only the stumps of the uprights embedded in the granite where they remain today. It is, as complaints go, the most quotably Victorian thing ever said about a tor. Haytor draws this kind of response. It always has.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/r/haytor-wp/gbvr-haytor-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Haytor: Idetordoune to Haytor https://qualla.com/haytor/ Photo credit Calips, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name has drifted. Idetordoune in 1566. Ittor Doune in 1687. Idetor by 1737. Eator Down in 1762. Itterdown by 1789. Haytor itself is comparatively modern, probably a corruption of the older name and that of the Haytor Hundred, the administrative district that covered the coast...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/r/haytor-wp/gbvr-haytor-idetordoune-to-haytor.mp3 0:06 2 full Haytor: The Stone That Crossed an Ocean https://qualla.com/haytor/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Wigulf~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5. The granite of Haytor is coarse-grained, full of large feldspar crystals. The granite beneath the tor is finer, easier to dress, better suited to building. Quarries opened here in 1820, served by the unique Haytor Granite Tramway whose rails were carved from granite blocks. The s...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/r/haytor-wp/gbvr-haytor-the-stone-that-crossed-an-ocean.mp3 0:06 3 full Haytor: King Arthur on Dartmoor https://qualla.com/haytor/ Photo credit Steinsky, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1953 the MGM production of "Knights of the Round Table," starring Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner, descended on Haytor. Crews built what one source called "an elaborate and impressive castle" in the avenue between the two main rock piles. They staged jousts. Medieval pageantry r...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/r/haytor-wp/gbvr-haytor-king-arthur-on-dartmoor.mp3 0:06 4 full Haytor: Haytorite, Climbers, and the Dartmoor National Park https://qualla.com/haytor/ Photo credit Sarah Charlesworth, CC BY-SA 2.0. In an iron mine adjacent to the granite quarries, geologists found a variety of quartz that they named haytorite "in honour of its birth-place." Then there is Lowman, the smaller western outcrop, which rock climbers tackle alongside the main pile - both faces offer routes at vary...

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