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Coordinates: 50°36′N 4°36′W / 50.6°N 4.6°W
Rough Tor (
/ˈraʊtər/ row-ter), or Roughtor, is a hill and tor on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. Its summit is 1313 ft (400m) above mean sea level, making it the second highest point in Cornwall.
Rough Tor lies approximately three miles (5 km) southeast of Camelford and one mile northwest of Brown Willy, Cornwall's highest point. Both hills are in the civil parish of St Breward. The De Lank River rises in the vicinity and flows between the two hills.
The walk to the summit is popular with visitors; a road provides easy access to a car park one mile from the summit. There is a memorial below Rough Tor to the men of the 43rd (Wessex) Division who lost their lives in the second World War.[1] Crowdy Reservoir and the Lowermoor Water Treatment Works are not far away from the hill.
In a programme shown in 2007 Channel 4's Time Team investigated a 500 metre cairn and the site of a Bronze Age village on the slopes of Rough Tor.[2]
There is also a Rough Tor on Dartmoor in Devon, three miles west of Postbridge.
[edit] References
- ^ Rough Tor
- ^ "Bodmin Moor, Cornwall". Channel 4: Time Team. 8 April 2007. http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2007_bod_found.html. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
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