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 close to Brentor boasts some of the best cities including Exeter.

Exeter Cathedral, St Mary Steps, and St Stephen's Church - Exeter are great places to visit near Brentor if you like historic buildings.

Villages to visit near Brentor include Starcross, Lynton and Lynmouth, Littleham, Otterton, Branscombe, Beer, and Hope Cove.

Don't miss Exeter Canal, and Grand Western Canal at Tiverton's canals if visiting the area around Brentor.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Brentor include East Lyn River.

The area around Brentor boasts some of the best beaches including Blacklands Beach, Branscombe Beach, and Hope Cove.

There are a several good geological features in the area around Brentor like Valley of Rocks.

There are a number of sssis near to Brentor including Dartmoor.

Dartmoor is one of Brentor's best, nearby hiking areas to visit in Brentor.

Brentor is near some unmissable nature reserves like Dartmoor,

There are a number of towns near Brentor including Dartmouth, Tiverton, Crediton, Topsham, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, and Seaton.

The area close to Brentor boasts some of the best parks including Bicton Park.

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

Castles to visit near Brentor include Berry Pomeroy Castle.

Berry Pomeroy Castle is one of Brentor's best, nearby ruins to visit in Brentor.

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