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Hound Tor – Jay's Grave Bridleway loop from Haytor Rocks

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Hound Tor – Jay's Grave Bridleway loop from Haytor Rocks

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Hound Tor – Jay's Grave Bridleway loop from Haytor Rocks

03:34

38.4km

960m

Mountain biking

Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. Some portions of the route may require you to push your bike. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 13, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment that may be dangerous

A part of this route comprises technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience may be required.

After 3.11 km for 264 m

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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2.46 km

Hound Tor Moorland Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

You'll need your navigational wits about you as you ride out onto the moor. The trail is faint in places, rocky or boggy in others. Hound Tor is a huge rocky outcrop, though, that makes for a perfect marker in an otherwise remote expanse of moorland

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4.92 km

Hound Tor

Highlight • Climb

Hound Tor is a breathtaking granite outcrop that rewards those who climb to the top with magnificent views over Dartmoor. According to legend, these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case, Hound of the Baskervilles.

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6.46 km

Jay's Grave Bridleway

Highlight (Segment) • Historical Site

Jay's Grave is named for the grave of a girl who committed suicide at the eastern end of the trail. Mysterious flowers are still laid there, although no-one claims responsibility. Some believe the grave is haunted as a result.

From a mountain biking perspective the trail is an ancient sunken road which has been rendered straightforward by sanitisation, but at least it's a (rare in these parts) trail which doesn't head sharply up or down!

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9.96 km

Grimspound Bronze-Age Settlement

Highlight • Historical Site

Grimspound is situated on one of the highest points of the moor. Once home to dozens of people and their livestock, the eerie setting was where Sherlock Holmes spent the night in the novel, the Hound of the Baskervilles. The remains of these 24 stone roundhouses date from the late Bronze Age (about 1450–700 BC).

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24.7 km

Hunter's Tor

Highlight • Historical Site

Often overlooked, Hunter's Tor is a great vantage point with splendid views. There are the remains of an Iron Age fort nearby too.

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24.7 km

Nutcracker Trail

Highlight (Segment) • MTB Park

A startlingly rocky trail which is a real test of technical riding. It's named nutcracker on the map, but many a rider has wondered if whoever named the area in the first place, hundreds of years ago, was an amazingly prescient mountain biker!

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26.4 km

Trials Section, Dartmoor National Park

Highlight • Forest

Perfect section to do a bit of trials riding, great rocks to bounce over or take a technical line around them, all in all great run from nut crackers all the way down to the back lane.

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38.4 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

17.7 km

11.2 km

5.28 km

2.77 km

1.37 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

14.0 km

10.0 km

8.31 km

2.24 km

2.12 km

1.44 km

246 m

Elevation

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Highest point (490 m)

Lowest point (60 m)

Weather

Sunday 17 May

12°C

7°C

96 %

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Hound Tor – Jay's Grave Bridleway loop from Haytor Rocks

Hound Tor Moorland Trail

Hound Tor

Jay's Grave Bridleway

Grimspound Bronze-Age Settlement

Hunter's Tor

Nutcracker Trail

Trials Section, Dartmoor National Park

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