Lustleigh Cleave | |
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![]() View onto Lustleigh Cleave | |
Location in
Devon | |
Length | 2 miles (3.2 km) North West-South East |
Geography | |
Coordinates | 50°37′16″N 3°44′49″W / 50.621°N 3.747°W |
River | River Bovey |
The Lustleigh Cleave is a steep sided valley above the River Bovey [1] in the parish of Lustleigh on Dartmoor. The cleave has been noted for its beauty since the 1800s, [2] [3] and features extensively in guidebooks. [4] [5]
The Lustleigh Cleave is a steep-sided valley, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) in length, with the River Bovey flowing at the bottom approximately South-Easterly. [6]
Nothing can spoil the Cleave, where the granite, piled up like giants' castles, crowns the gorge, and is spread all the way to the stream below.
— Cresswell, 1920 [7]
The valley is scattered with granite clitter (rocks strewn across the landscape), including rocking logan stones. [8]
The cleave contains Hunter's Tor, a granite tor, typical of Dartmoor, and location of an Iron Age settlement, and later Domesday book settlement of Sutreworde. [9] [10]
There is regeneration of temperate rainforest on the Lustleigh Cleave, following a reduction in grazing and swaling. [11] [12] [13] [14]
Lustleigh Cleave | |
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![]() View onto Lustleigh Cleave | |
Location in
Devon | |
Length | 2 miles (3.2 km) North West-South East |
Geography | |
Coordinates | 50°37′16″N 3°44′49″W / 50.621°N 3.747°W |
River | River Bovey |
The Lustleigh Cleave is a steep sided valley above the River Bovey [1] in the parish of Lustleigh on Dartmoor. The cleave has been noted for its beauty since the 1800s, [2] [3] and features extensively in guidebooks. [4] [5]
The Lustleigh Cleave is a steep-sided valley, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) in length, with the River Bovey flowing at the bottom approximately South-Easterly. [6]
Nothing can spoil the Cleave, where the granite, piled up like giants' castles, crowns the gorge, and is spread all the way to the stream below.
— Cresswell, 1920 [7]
The valley is scattered with granite clitter (rocks strewn across the landscape), including rocking logan stones. [8]
The cleave contains Hunter's Tor, a granite tor, typical of Dartmoor, and location of an Iron Age settlement, and later Domesday book settlement of Sutreworde. [9] [10]
There is regeneration of temperate rainforest on the Lustleigh Cleave, following a reduction in grazing and swaling. [11] [12] [13] [14]