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South Brentor Quarry

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South Brentor Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon. It is one of 191 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. It is the smallest of them. It lies inside Dartmoor National Park.

Brent Tor and Cholwell Brook are among the SSSIs within 3.1 km. The nearest railway station is Gunnislake, about 11.1 km to the south-west.

More places to visit near South Brentor Quarry

Photo of Dartmoor, a National Park in Devon, south west England.Iconic

Dartmoor

You’re inside itNational Park near Postbridge

Granite tors, wild ponies and England's largest expanse of open moorland in the south.

Photo of Lydford Gorge, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Okehampton in Dartmoor, Devon, south west England.Highlight

Lydford Gorge

SSSI near Okehampton

A deep, wooded river gorge on the western edge of Dartmoor, with a churning whirlpool at one end and a tall waterfall at the other

3.5 km NE

Photo of Lydford Gorge, a gorge near Okehampton in Dartmoor, Devon, south west England.Iconic

Lydford Gorge

Gorge near Okehampton

The deepest gorge in the South West, its path threading past the White Lady waterfall and the Devil's Cauldron whirlpool.

4.9 km NE

Photo of the Tamar Valley, a National Landscape in south west England.Highlight

Tamar Valley

National Landscape near Bere Alston

A steep wooded river valley on the Devon–Cornwall border, deep in old copper-and-arsenic mining history

5.4 km SW

Photo of Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement, a stone row near Postbridge in Dartmoor, Devon, south west England.Highlight

Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement

Stone row near Postbridge

Bronze Age hut circles beside double stone rows, a small stone circle and a tall standing stone on the open moor west of Princetown.

9.5 km SE

Photo of Bearslake Inn, a pub near Lake in Dartmoor, Devon, south west England.Highlight

Bearslake Inn

Pub · With rooms near Lake

Thatched 13th-century inn with rooms on the north-western edge of Dartmoor.

9.6 km NE