High Willhays, Dartmoor, Devon - W H Dyer art postcard, Salmon c.1920s

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• Picture / Image:  High Willhays, Dartmoor, Devon - art postcard by W. H. Dyer
• Publisher:  J Salmon No. 786
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• Notes / condition:  very slight bumped corner

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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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High Willhays or, according to some authors, High Willes^[3] is the highest point on Dartmoor, Devon, at 621 metres (2,039 ft) above sea level,^[1] and the highest point in the United Kingdom south of the Brecon Beacons.

In 1912, William Crossing, writer and documenter, said that the name High Willes had been thought to have derived from the word huel or wheal meaning mine, but he did not think that very likely as old mine workings were invariably located near to streams. He suggested instead that the name derived from gwylfa, a watching place, noting its similarity with Brown Willy, the name of the highest hill on nearby Bodmin Moor, and suggested that a watch for beacon fires used to be kept here. He also posited a possible link to the word gwili meaning winding or tortuous, but said it was unlikely this was where it originated from.^[4]

The Place-Names of Devon (1931) notes that the peak was named Hight Wyll in a document of 1532, and was known in 1827 as High Willows. The authors state that the name may simply be a compound of high and well (meaning spring), though they admit that the additional syllable at the end is hard to explain.^[5]

High Willhays is near the north western edge of Dartmoor, about 2.5 km south east of Meldon Reservoir and about 5 km south of the town of Okehampton. Although it is the highest point of the moor, it is relatively insignificant in comparison to most of the moor's tors, consisting of no more than a few low outcrops of rock along a north-south ridge. The largest outcrop is crowned with a cairn. The more impressive, but slightly lower, Yes Tor is about 1 km north along this ridge, which is known as ""the roof of Devon"".^[6]

High Willhays and Yes Tor are the only summits in England south of Kinder Scout in the Peak District to rise above 2,000 feet (610 m), apart from Black Mountain which is on the Welsh border. Before Ordnance Survey measured accurately the heights of High Willhays and Yes Tor many people believed Yes Tor was the higher of the two, and it was only the local farmers and moormen that believed the contrary. However, the first topographical survey of the area carried out by Ordnance Survey suggested that High Willhays was twelve feet higher,^[4] although the difference has now been measured at just eight feet. William Crossing stated that High Willhays was the highest point in England south of Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales,^[4] but since then surveys have shown that Kinder Scout is also higher.

The geology of High Willhays, like most of Dartmoor, consists of granite intruded about 280 million years ago. However High Willhays is in an area of the northern plateau of the moor where the exposed rock has noticeably fewer of the large feldspar megacrysts that are typical of most of Dartmoor's tors.^[7] Each of the outcrops displays lamellar bedding.^[6]

High Willhays is situated within one of Dartmoor's Danger Zones — areas used periodically by the British Army for exercises. Red flags are raised around the perimeter when live-firing is due to take place.

type=printed

city/ region=dartmoor

period=inter-war (1918-39)

publisher=j salmon

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89 mm)