While only two places are mentioned above as starting-places from which to get at Dartmoor, a dozen others, such as Tavistock and Ashburton, might be mentioned.  Bovey Tracey, however, has many advantages, for the moment one alights from the train one sees only four miles distant two of the most rugged tors of the moor—­Hey Tor and Rippon Tor—­the last with its great logan stone balanced near the summit.  A coach from the “Dolphin,” which runs three days a week in the season, takes one through scenery which grows more and more desolate and grand as the summit of Hey Tor is approached.  From Hey Tor the coach goes on to Buckland Beacon, whence a wide view is obtained, including the shining roofs of Princetown right away in the distance.  Princetown, with its convict prison, is considered by the people of the moor to be its most important town.  Holne, which is included in some of the coach drives from Bovey Tracey, contains the birthplace of Charles Kingsley.  Dartmoor is so huge that one must be born and spend a lifetime in or near it to really know it, and the visitor can merely endeavour to see typical examples of its granite tors, its peaty streams, its great stretches of boulder-strewn heather, and its strangely isolated villages.

Eight miles from Bovey Tracey is Widdecombe, the lonely little village possessing a church which is known as “the Cathedral of the Moor.”  The great tower of the church was struck by lightning one Sunday in October 1638, and a contemporary account can be seen on some panels in the tower.

Brent Tor, illustrated opposite, is quite close to the station on the L. and S.W.  Railway of that name.  The little battlemented church on the summit, which has nave, aisles, and chancel, has a legendary origin and is dedicated to St. Michael.  The rock composing the tor is volcanic trap.

[Illustration:  BRENT TOR, DARTMOOR.

The little church standing on Brent Tor is very prominently situated and can be seen for many miles across the moor.]

HAWORTH

THE HOME OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE

=How to get there.=—­Train from St. Pancras.  Change at Keighley. 
  Midland Railway.
=Nearest Station.=—­Haworth. =Distance from London.=—­216 miles. =Average Time.=—­Varies between 5-1/2 to 6-1/2 hours.

                     1st 2nd 3rd
=Fares.=—­Single 28s. 7d. ... 16s. 6-1/2d. 
          Return 57s. 2d. ... 33s. 1d.

=Accommodation Obtainable.=—­At Keighley—­“Devonshire Hotel.”

Haworth is a long straggling village 4 miles from Keighley, a large manufacturing town in the West Riding of Yorkshire.  The road is very steep to the village—­“four tough, scrambling miles.”  It consists of one street, so steep that the flagstones with which it is paved are placed end-ways that the horses may not stumble.  Past the church and the lonely parsonage are the wide moors, high, wild, and desolate, up above