Brentor is a Town in the county of Devon.

Retail in Brentor

There are great places to visit near Brentor including some great cities, historic buildings, villages, canals, rivers and streams, beaches, geological features, sssis, hiking areas, nature reserves, towns, parks, airports, castles and ruins.

The area around Brentor's best cities can be found at Exeter.

Historic Buildings to visit near Brentor include Exeter Cathedral, St Mary Steps, and St Stephen's Church - Exeter.

The area around Brentor boasts some of the best villages including Starcross, Lynton and Lynmouth, Littleham, Otterton, Branscombe, Beer, and Hope Cove.

The area around Brentor features a number of interesting canals including Exeter Canal, and Grand Western Canal at Tiverton.

There are a number of rivers and streams near to Brentor including East Lyn River.

There are a several good beaches in the Brentor area like Blacklands Beach, Branscombe Beach, and Hope Cove.

Valley of Rocks is a great place to visit close to Brentor if you like geological features.

Places near Brentor feature a number of interesting sssis including Dartmoor.

There are a several good hiking areas in the area around Brentor like Dartmoor.

Nature Reserves to visit near Brentor include Dartmoor.

Brentor's best nearby towns can be found at Dartmouth, Tiverton, Crediton, Topsham, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, and Seaton.

Don't miss Bicton Park's parks if visiting the area around Brentor.

There are a several good airports in the area around Brentor like Exeter Airport.

Castles to visit near Brentor include Berry Pomeroy Castle.

The area around Brentor's best ruins can be found at Berry Pomeroy Castle.

Brentor History

There are some historic monuments around Brentor:

• Stone hut circle forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on the north-east slope of Cox Tor
• Stone hut circle 130m south east of the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on Cox Tor
• Sixteen stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on the north-east slope of Cox Tor
• Stone cross SW of church
• Tavistock Abbey
• Round barrow cemetery and beacon at Heathfield, 650m west of Moorlands
• Icework at Sourton Tors
• Two stone hut circles and an enclosure forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement of the north-east slope of Cox Tor
• Wheal Betsy pumping house
• Two cairns forming the north eastern edge of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• Stone hut circle, cairns and irregular aggregate field system 850m SSE of Sourton Tors
• Cairnfield and two stone hut circles 490m and 550m south west of Cox Tor
• Round cairn 330m north of the Ordance Survey triangulation pillar on Cox Tor
• Southern of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• Windy Post: a wayside cross on open moorland 1.8km north of Sampford Spiney village
• Ring cairn 660m north west of Little Links Tor
• Enclosed stone hut circle settlement 600m WSW of White Tor
• Enclosure, two stone hut circles and an alignment of upright stones 780m north west of Little Links Tor
• Enclosure in Parsonage Wood
• Coaxial field system and prehistoric settlement 410m west of Cox Tor
• Gunnislake Clitters copper, tin, arsenic and wolfram mine
• Enclosure in Brandis Wood, 175m north of Longham
• Round cairn 300m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Stone hut circle settlement, fields and enclosures 270m south-west of White Tor
• Cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Inscribed stones in vicarage garden
• Bowl barrow 340m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield
• Cairn forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Enclosed settlement 420m south of Doetor Farm
• Huckworthy Cross: a wayside cross 1.4km SSW of Sampford Spiney village
• Round cairn 190m east of Doe Tor summit
• Earthworks on Brent Tor
• Prehistoric irregular aggregate field system, stone hut circles and a medieval field on the south-west slope of White Tor
• Round cairn 610m north east of Great Nodden
• Hillfort and medieval settlement in South Longridge Wood
• Green Lane Cross: a wayside cross at the north west end of Whitchurch Down
• Round cairn 380m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Bowl barrow 570m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield
• Enclosure and stone hut circle 770m south of Cox Tor
• Length of reave 290m north of Feather Tor, forming part of a coaxial field system on Whitchurch Common
• Alluvial tin streamwork in Lydford Woods
• Prehistoric settlement 610m south west of Cox Tor
• Enclosure and stone hut circle 80m north of White Tor fort
• Stone hut circle settlement 330m south east of Great Nodden
• Ring cairn 460m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Ring cairn 920m south west of Little Staple Tor
• Stone hut circle and a short length of boundary wall forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on the north-east slope of Cox Tor
• One of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• Enclosures and hut circles N of White Tor
• An enclosed stone hut circle settlement, three round cairns and a length of reave 650m WSW of Ger Tor
• Three stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on the north-east slope of Cox Tor
• Two cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the northern slope of White Hill
• Stone hut circle 500m north of Wedlake Farm
• Motte with two baileys and a multivallate hillfort at Burley Wood
• Early 20th century arsenic works at the Devon Great Consols Mine
• Deserted medieval settlement 750m south of White Hill summit
• Civil War redoubt 750m south east of East Linnacombe
• Stone hut circle 530m ESE of Nodden Gate forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Ringwork, castle, town banks, site of Saxon town and defences
• Stone circle, cairn alignment, cider millstone and boundary ditch 410m south east of Sourton Tors
• An enclosure boundary wall, thirteen stone hut circles and a round cairn on Nattor Down and Hamlyn's Newtake
• Canal, lock, island and salmon keeping pond known collectively as the Tamar Canal
• Stone hut circle 210m south of the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on Cox Tor
• Ring cairn 510m south west of Great Nodden
• Round cairn 230m south-west of White Hill summit forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Stone hut circle 610m ESE of Nodden Gate forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Two cairns forming the western edge of a cairnfield on the northern slope of White Hill
• Round cairn 340m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Two cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Ring cairn 1060m south west of Great Nodden
• Hilltop enclosure known as Castle Park Camp, 720m north west of Pomphlett
• Tor cairn forming part of a round cairn cemetery, and a stone hut circle on the summit of Cox Tor
• Eluvial tin streamworks and prehistoric coaxial field system together with other archaeological remains on Whitchurch Common
• Enclosed settlement 280m south-west of the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on Cox Tor
• Ring cairn 975m south of Sourton Tors
• Enclosed stone hut circle settlement and kerbed boulder 300m WNW of White Tor summit
• Round cairn 560m south east of Little Staple Tor
• Two ring cairns 250m north of the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on Cox Tor
• Southern White Hill cairnfield
• Two round cairns 715m south-west of Great Nodden
• Eastern of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• Trendle earthwork NE of Kelly College
• Round cairn and stone hut circle 950m south of Sourton Tors
• Tor cairn 170m south of Cox Tor summit forming part of a round cairn cemetery
• Round cairn and stone cist 310m south of Walla Brook
• Bidlake Mill and leat
• Stone hut circle 400m south east of Great Nodden forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Round cairn 765m south-west of Great Nodden
• Ring cairn 50m north-east of White Hill summit forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Hut circles SW of Wedlake
• Round cairn 700m south-west of Great Nodden
• Four stone hut circles and a cairnfield 400m south-east of Wedlake Farm forming part of the settlement on the north-west slope of Roos Tor
• Lake Down cairnfield 810m ESE and 780m east of Lake Viaduct
• Cairnfield and associated earthworks on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• Cairn and cist on Barn Hill, 840m north east of Moortown Farm
• Pixies' Cross: a wayside cross and associated earthwork enclosure on Whitchurch Down
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 770m NNW of Little Links Tor
• Cairn 410m south-west of White Tor summit
• Stone hut circle 370m south east of Great Nodden forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Round cairn 170m north of the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on Cox Tor
• Gallows Hill
• Cairn and cist 150m north of Vixen Tor
• Ring cairn and rectangular building earthwork 940m west of Widgery Cross
• Ring cairn on Great Nodden summit
• Ring cairn 80m north-east of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Leawood Plantation barrow
• Hut circles and a length of enclosure wall, forming part of a stone hut circle settlement 600m east of Nodden Gate
• Sourton Down Cross, 360m north east of Aliceford Farm
• The southernmost of four cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Irregular aggregate field system, stone hut circles and post-medieval fields on the north-east slope of Cox Tor
• Three round cairns 310m south of White Tor summit
• Milestone N of Lower Beardon
• Bowl barrow on Galford Down, 200m south west of Westdown Pool
• Enclosed stone hut circle settlement on the south slope of White Tor
• Ring cairn 450m south of Willsworthy Camp
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement, associated fields and a length of the Great Western Reave 500m south of Wedlake Farm
• Round cairn 270m west of Great Nodden
• The westernmost of four cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Two round cairns 840m south west of Great Nodden
• Stone hut circle settlement 580m north east of White Hill summit
• Three round cairns 420m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Round cairn 470m south east of Sourton Tors
• Two stone hut circles and an enclosure 140m east of the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on Cox Tor
• Willsworthy Pound adjacent to Willsworthy Bridge
• White Tor camp, Cudlipptown Down
• Length of reave and three military emplacements 290m south west and 280m south east of Cox Tor
• Round cairn 700m south of Sourton Tors
• Cairnfield 460m south east of Cox Tor