In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Haytor like this:
HAYTOR, or HEYTOR, a hamlet and a hill in Ilsington parish, Devon. The hamlet lies on the E border of Dartmoor forest, 4½ miles NNE of Ashburton; bears the name of Haytor-Vale or Haytor-Town; and has a small inn. The hill is about a mile W of the hamlet; soars into two acute summits; is traversed, from NW to SE, by remains of a Celtic road, or trackway; has, on its slope, a group of hut circles, or vestiges of an ancient British town; and commands an extensive and superb view. ...
Famous granite quarries were worked, till recently, immediately below its summit; were connected by a railway, to a canal communicating with the navigable part of the Teign river; furnished the materials for several public structures, or parts of structures, in London; and are now a picturesque foreground for sketchers.
Haytor through time
Haytor is now part of Teignbridge district. Click here for graphs and data of how Teignbridge has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Haytor itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Haytor, in Teignbridge and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21453
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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