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| Name: | Afton Tor |
| Hill number: | 17766 |
| Height: | 125m / 410ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2877 High Willhays |
| RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
| County/UA: | Devon |
| Catchment: | Dart |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SX 83776 63594 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: pasture |
| Drop: | 47m |
| Col: | 78m SX847636  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 202 (1:25k) OL20E OL44 110 |
| Observations: | level summit area |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 6 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Afton Tor, After Talk..ing all day supply teaching at Newton Abbot College. Tumping on the way back to Kingswear via back lanes - short walk from field entrance across sticky mud through stubble. Excitingly 300m S the surface geology changes from the thin Permian Sandstone to limestone, An extensive caving system (Afton Red Rift Cave) lies underground here entered by the pothole (named on OS map) 18ft up a quarry face . In the 1960s it was enthusiastically explored and mapped weekend after weekend by a hardy bunch from Shepton Mallet caving club who squeezed, dug out mud and drained sumps (using drainpipes and building ingenious small concrete dams). Challenging passages include Mud Hall and Watkins Squeeze -which apparently involved some 'chipping' to enable the chunkier Watkins to follow his companions. Good video on youtube of a modern day caving trip. Makes the many trials of hillbagging seem wholly acceptable | Chris Pearson | 12/03/2024 |
| From N. | clivevilla | 06/03/2023 |
| domed grassy sheep pasture with extensive views | Denise | 17/04/2019 |
| From field gate at Woodhead Cross. Cultivated pasture, indistinct high point. | RichardM | 17/04/2019 |
| From N, level arable summit | RHW | 16/06/2018 |
| Dusty | 25/03/2019 |