Haytor Granite Quarry, Devon - National Park postcard c.1970s

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  • Picture / Image:  Haytor Granite Quarries operated from 1820 for about 50 years when London Bridge was built...
  • Publisher:  Dartmoor National Park DNP card 8
  • Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Haytor, also known as Haytor Rocks,[1] Hay Tor, or occasionally Hey Tor,[2] is a granite tor on the eastern edge of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon. It is at grid reference SX757770, near the village of Haytor Vale in the parish of Ilsington.

Idetordoune (1566), Ittor Doune (1687), Idetor (1737), Eator Down (1762) and Itterdown (1789) are a few recorded examples of earlier names by which Haytor was known.[3] The name Haytor is of comparatively recent origin, and is probably a corruption of its old name and that of the Haytor Hundred,[4] which covered the coastal area between the River Teign and River Dart,[5] itself now considered to have been named after a lost village located somewhere between Totnes and Newton Abbot.[6]

In the 19th century steps were cut into one side of the tor and a metal handrail fixed to allow tourists easier access to the summit. This was not entirely welcomed and in 1851, a Dr Croker complained about the rock steps that had been cut ""to enable the enervated and pinguedinous scions of humanity of this wonderful nineteenth