A rugged granite tor on Bodmin Moor, ringed by Bronze Age remains and topped by a war memorial, with Cornwall's highest hill next door
Open accessNational Trust land — free to wander
Rough Tor (say it ‘Row Tor’) is one of the high points of Bodmin Moor, a jumble of weathered granite stacked into a rocky summit — a tor is just an exposed knot of rock left standing as the softer ground wore away around it. Only Brown Willy a short way south-east is higher, the highest hill in Cornwall. The slopes around are thick with prehistory: hut circles, field banks and cairns from Bronze Age farmers, and Fernacre stone circle sits below to the south. On the summit is a memorial to the 43rd Wessex Division of the Second World War. The National Trust owns the tor, and the walk up from the car park to the north-west is short but rough and boggy underfoot, so decent boots help.
