Sourton
Sourton is a Town in the county of Devon.
There are great places to visit near Sourton 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.
Cities to visit near Sourton include Exeter.
Historic Buildings to visit near Sourton include Exeter Cathedral, St Mary Steps, and St Stephen's Church - Exeter.
Starcross, Lynton and Lynmouth, Littleham, Otterton, Branscombe, Beer, and Hope Cove are great places to visit near Sourton if you like villages.
Canals to visit near Sourton include Exeter Canal, and Grand Western Canal at Tiverton.
There are a number of rivers and streams near to Sourton including East Lyn River.
Don't miss Blacklands Beach, Branscombe Beach, and Hope Cove's beaches if visiting the area around Sourton.
Sourton is near some unmissable geological features like Valley of Rocks,
The area around Sourton's best sssis can be found at Dartmoor.
Dartmoor is a great place to visit close to Sourton if you like hiking areas.
Dartmoor is one of Sourton's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in Sourton.
Sourton's best nearby towns can be found at Dartmouth, Tiverton, Crediton, Topsham, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, and Seaton.
Bicton Park is a great place to visit close to Sourton if you like parks.
Exeter Airport is one of Sourton's best, nearby airports to visit in Sourton.
There are a several good castles in the area around Sourton like Berry Pomeroy Castle.
There are a number of ruins near to Sourton including Berry Pomeroy Castle.
Sourton History
There are some historic monuments around Sourton:
- Cairnfield, irregular aggregate field system, a ring cairn and three round cairns 800m and 920m south of Moorgate Farm
- Ring cairn 660m north west of Little Links Tor
- Round cairn 340m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
- Enclosed stone hut circle settlement 540m east of Doe Tor
- Ringwork, castle, town banks, site of Saxon town and defences
- Stone hut circle 530m ESE of Nodden Gate forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
- Medieval homesteads S of Meldon quarry
- Three round cairns 420m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery
- Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Two round cairns 840m south west of Great Nodden
- Deserted medieval site NW of Okehampton camp
- Cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
- Wheal Betsy pumping house
- Wayside cross at Durdon Cross
- Stone hut circle, cairns and irregular aggregate field system 850m SSE of Sourton Tors
- Sourton Down Cross, 360m north east of Aliceford Farm
- Eighteen cairns, a length of bank and a recumbent stone forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Earthworks on Brent Tor
- A stone hut circle 430m NE of Ger Tor forming part of a settlement situated within a large enclosure
- Eastern of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
- Three cairns forming the westernmost part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Okehampton Castle: a motte and bailey castle with associated earthworks north of the West Okement River.
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Northernmost stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
- Round cairn 765m south-west of Great Nodden
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Stone hut circle 630m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
- Round cairn 50m north west of Yes Tor summit
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Enclosure and unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 510m north of Deadlake Foot
- Okehampton Artillery Range: Experimental Parapets and Redoubt
- Cairn 690m south west of White Barrow
- Southern of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
- Stone hut circle settlement 330m south east of Great Nodden
- Southern White Hill cairnfield
- A cluster of five stone hut circles situated within a large enclosure 470m north-east of Ger Tor
- Round cairn 60m WSW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
- Seven cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 770m NNW of Little Links Tor
- Stone hut circle 370m south east of Great Nodden forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
- Ring cairn 160m WNW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
- Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Meldon viaduct
- Round cairn 700m south of Sourton Tors
- Stone hut circle 635m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
- The westernmost of four cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
- Stone hut circle and field-plots 100m east of Ger Tor
- Deserted medieval site 1/2 mile (810m) W of Okehampton camp
- Two cairns forming the western edge of a cairnfield on the northern slope of White Hill
- Three stone hut circles situated west of the enclosed stone hut circle settlement 260m north of Deadlake Foot
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Tinners' building lying adjacent to the Black Ridge Brook and situated 1540m NNE of Fur Tor
- Hut circles and a length of enclosure wall, forming part of a stone hut circle settlement 600m east of Nodden Gate
- Bowl barrow on Wadland Down
- Gallows Hill
- Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- One of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
- Stone hut circle 640m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
- Round cairn 750m NNW of East Okement Farm
- Enclosed stone hut circle settlement 260m north of Deadlake Foot
- Two stone hut circles 675m south-west of Beardown Man forming the southern limit of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slopes of Conies Down Tor
- Village cross in Northlew, 40m south west of the church
- Tor cairn 70m WNW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
- Stone hut circle lying south of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Bowl barrow on Galford Down, 200m south west of Westdown Pool
- Lake Down cairnfield 810m ESE and 780m east of Lake Viaduct
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- An enclosed stone hut circle settlement, three round cairns and a length of reave 650m WSW of Ger Tor
- Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Round cairn 230m south-west of White Hill summit forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery
- Stone hut circle 530m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
- Tinners' building 90m north east of the confluence of the Brim Brook and West Okement River
- Okehampton Artillery Range: Linear and Curved Target Railways on F Range
- Ring cairn 80m north-east of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
- Okehampton Artillery Range: Observation Post 6 and Incline Target Carrier Railway
- Guide post at Place Cross
- A stone hut circle 50m west of Western Red Lake
- Round cairn 240m north of Ger Tor
- Hillfort and medieval settlement in South Longridge Wood
- Round cairn 380m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
- Enclosure 1250m NNW of Standon Down
- Deserted medieval site N of Okehampton camp
- Stone hut circle settlement 280m south-west of Deadlake Foot
- Wayside cross at Eastcombe on the road between Durdon Cross and Eastcombe
- A stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
- Round cairn 140m WSW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
- Wayside cross in the garden hedge of Southcott Cottage, at a crossroads called Southcott Cross
- Round cairn 700m south-west of Great Nodden
- Stone hut circle settlement and enclosures 970m east of Ger Tor
- An enclosure boundary wall, thirteen stone hut circles and a round cairn on Nattor Down and Hamlyn's Newtake
- Round cairn 250m south east of Standon Farm
- Two stone hut circles 310m south of Deadlake Foot
- Round cairn 220m north of Conies Down Tor
- Southernmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Ring cairn 50m north-east of White Hill summit forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
- Civil War redoubt 750m south east of East Linnacombe
- Enclosure in Parsonage Wood
- Cairn forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
- Ring cairn 120m west of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
- Enclosed settlement 420m south of Doetor Farm
- North easternmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
- The southernmost of four cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and associated fields north of Standon Down
- Two cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the northern slope of White Hill
- Round cairn 470m south east of Sourton Tors
- Two stone hut circles 450m SSE of Ger Tor
- Four bowl barrows 340m north west of Mount Pleasant Farm
- Round barrow cemetery and beacon at Heathfield, 650m west of Moorlands
- Milestone N of Lower Beardon
- Broadbury Castle Roman camp
- Round cairn and stone hut circle 950m south of Sourton Tors
- A stone hut circle forming part of an unenclosed settlement, and tinners' building at Watern Oke
- Stone hut circle settlement 580m north east of White Hill summit
- Round cairn and stone cist 310m south of Walla Brook
- Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- 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
- Ring cairn 450m south of Willsworthy Camp
- Two stone hut circles and a field 340m south west of Lints Tor
- Leawood Plantation barrow
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Ring cairn 510m south west of Great Nodden
- Willsworthy Pound adjacent to Willsworthy Bridge
- A small stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
- Enclosure and stone hut circle 535m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of the dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
- Round cairn 540m north of White Barrow
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- An alluvial tin streamwork adjacent to the Brim Brook
- Stone circle, cairn alignment, cider millstone and boundary ditch 410m south east of Sourton Tors
- Cairnfield and associated earthworks on the north eastern slope of White Hill
- Bowl barrow 350m south of Broomhill
- Cairn and cist forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
- Tor cairn surrounding Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
- Round cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Bowl barrow on East Kimber Common, 670m west of Stoney
- A cluster of five stone hut circles and associated boundary wall situated within a large enclosure 30m north-east of Ger Tor
- Stone hut circle 420m south west of Lints Tor
- Round cairn and shelter 140m north west of Yes Tor summit
- Sixty stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke
- Round cairn on Black Down 410m south west of Anthony Stile
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Round cairn and cist on Black Down 1.6km east of Higher Bowden
- Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement 290m north west of Lints Tor
- Enclosure, two stone hut circles and an alignment of upright stones 780m north west of Little Links Tor
- Round cairn 190m east of Doe Tor summit
- Tinners' building 680m north east of Fur Tor
- Two circular cairns, an ovoid cairn and a ring cairn lying within an enclosure forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
- Two bowl barrows on Broadbury, 140m and 230m south of Oakfield
- Beardown Man standing stone
- Stone alignment on Conies Down
- Stone hut circle 630m north-east of Ger Tor
- Ten stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke
- Icework at Sourton Tors
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
- Two bowl barrows on East Kimber Common 525m north west of Stoney
- Round cairn on Standon Hill
- Round cairn 550m SSE of Longstone Hill summit
- Ring cairn 1060m south west of Great Nodden
- Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Enclosure in Brandis Wood, 175m north of Longham
- Round cairn 590m south-west of Beardown Man lying on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
- Two cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
- Deserted medieval site 1/4 mile (400m) W of Okehampton camp
- Alluvial tin streamwork in Lydford Woods
- Ring cairn on Great Nodden summit
- Ring cairn 460m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
- Two stone hut circles 1000m north of Standon Down
- Stone hut circle 400m south east of Great Nodden forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
- Bidlake Mill and leat
- Deserted medieval settlement 750m south of White Hill summit
- A double stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
- A double stone hut circle and enclosure 280m south of Deadlake Foot
- Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Platform cairn 30m north west of Fordsland Ledge
- Round cairn 310m SSW of Great Links Tor
- Eight stone hut circles and a shieling forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
- Two round cairns 540m ENE of Sourton Tors
- Round cairn 270m west of Great Nodden
- Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Round cairn 340m north of Hare Tor
- Stone cross adjoining Fitz or Fice's Well
- Ring cairn 975m south of Sourton Tors
- Round cairn 610m north east of Great Nodden
- White Barrow round cairn
- Foxhole Mine and other tinworks south east of Arms Tor
- Stone hut circle 610m ESE of Nodden Gate forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
- Ring cairn and rectangular building earthwork 940m west of Widgery Cross
- Ten cairns and a length of bank forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
- Length of boundary wall and seven stone hut circles forming part of a large enclosure north-east of Ger Tor
- Tor cairn 180m north of High Willhays summit
- Two round cairns 715m south-west of Great Nodden
- Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Round cairn 300m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
- Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
- Stone hut circle 655m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
- Westernmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
- Tor cairn on High Willhays summit
- Okehampton Roman fort, fortlet and associated enclosures
- Five stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke
- Camp SE of Okehampton
- Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
Places to see near Sourton
Lakes near Sourton
Rivers near Sourton
- Broughton Brook (South and West Somerset)
- Tributary of Back Stream (Tone Catchment)
- Hele Bk
- Tone - Wellington to Taunton
- Haywards Water
- Westford Stream
- Sherford Stream
- Tone - Upper
- Back Stream
- Halse WTR
- Allen Brook(Maiden brook)
- Hillfarrance Bk
- West Dart River (Lower)
- West Dart River (Upper)
- East Webburn River
- West Dart River (Blackbrook to Swincombe)
- Wash
- Ashburn
- East Dart River
- Hems - Upper
- West Webburn River
- Swincombe
- Avon (Devon Tidal) and Sth Hams - Blackpool
- Mardle
- Avon (Devon Tidal) and Sth Hams - Slapton
- Cherry Brook
- Hems - Lower
- Dean Burn
- Dart
- Dart (Tidal)
- Am Brook
- Webburn
- Bidwell Brook
- The Gara
- Blackbrook River
- Harbourne River
- Beadon Brook
- Lemon
- South Teign River
- Reedy Brook
- North Teign
- Fingle Brook
- Teign (Upper)
- Ugbrooke Stream
- Wray Brook
- Aller Brook (Teign) - Lower
- Kate Brook
- Scotley Brook
- Aller Brook (Teign) - Upper
- Middle Bovey
- Blackaton Brook
- Liverton Brook
- Aller Brook
- Sowton Brook
- Bramble Brook
- Lower Bovey
- Becka Brook
- Upper Bovey
- Teign (Lower)
- Sheepham Bk
- Ayleston Brook
- Lud Brook
- Lower Erme
- Erme
- Middle Barle
- Dart (Exe)
- Danes Brook
- Lower Batherm
- Upper Barle
- Exe (Haddeo to Barle)
- Burn (Exe)
- Iron Mill Stream
- Upper River Haddeo
- Upper Batherm
- Lowman
- Exe (Barle to Culm)
- North Brook (East Devon)
- Exe (Quarme to Haddeo)
- Calverleigh Stream
- Exe (Source to Quarme)
- Exe (Culm to Creedy)
- Exe (Creedy to Estuary)
- Lower Barle
- Ben Brook
- Ben Brook
- Brockey River
- Quarme
- Lower River Haddeo
- Pulham
- Sherdon Water
- Grindle Brook
- Bolham River
- Weaver
- Aylesbeare Stream
- Polly Brook
- Halberton Stream
- Fulford Water
- Lower Clyst
- Madford River
- Ken Stream
- Middle Culm
- Lower Cranny Brook
- Ford Stream (EXE)
- Spratford Stream
- Upper Clyst
- Sheldon Stream
- Upper Cranny Brook
- Upper Culm
- Lower Culm
- Kenn
- Colebrook
- Holly Water
- Alphin Brook
- Lower Yeo (Creedy)
- Matford Brook
- Ford Brook (EXE)
- Upper Creedy
- Dawlish Water
- Upper Yeo (Creedy)
- Jackmoor Brook
- Shobrooke Lake
- Lower Creedy
- Troney
- Middle Creedy
- Culvery River
- Lim
- Branscombe Stream
- Blackwater River
- Lower Axe
- Kit Brook
- Yarty
- Umborne Brook
- Upper Coly
- Upper Axe
- Offwell Brook
- Lower Coly
- Forton Brook
- Corry Brook
- West Lyn River
- Heddon
- Lower East Lyn River
- Mully Brook
- Rye Stream
- Upper East Lyn River
- Lower River Yeo (Lapford)
- Mole (Taw to Bray)
- Yeo (Molland)
- Venn
- Coney Gut
- Sterridge
- Crooked Oak
- Tributary of River Heddon
- Huntacott Water
- Taw (Source to Bullow Brook)
- Hawkridge Brook
- Newton Tracey Stream
- Taw (River Yeo to Little Dart River)
- Sturcombe River
- Bullow Brook
- Bray (Mole to Hole Water)
- Hollocombe Water
- Upper River Yeo (Barnstaple)
- Upper Caen
- Taw Estuary
- Bradwell Stream
- Upper Little Dart River
- Chelfham Stream
- Hole Water
- Knowl Water
- Badgworthy Water
- Umber
- Farley Water
- Taw (Little Dart River to River Mole)
- Lower River Yeo (Barnstaple)
- Lower Caen
- Mole (Bray to Yeo)
- Lower Little River Dart
- Burcombe Stream
- Taw (River Mole to Estuary)
- Little Silver Stream
- Dalch
- Mole (Yeo to Burcombe Stream)
- Nadrid Water
- Bradiford Water
- Langham Lake
- Bray (Source to Hole Water)
- Mole (Source to Burcombe Stream)
- Taw (Bullow Brook to River Yeo)
- Knighty Brook
- Upper River Yeo (Lapford)
- Dolton Stream
- Lower River Mere
- Kenwith Stream
- Dipple Water
- Horwood Stream
- Little Mere River
- Torridge (Dipple Water to Combe Lake)
- Wagaford Water
- Middle River Lew (Torridge)
- Iddesleigh Stream
- Middle River Okement
- Upper River Yeo (Bideford)
- West Okement
- Upper River Mere
- East Okemont River
- Langtree Lake
- Mussel Brook
- Hole Brook
- Lower River Okement
- Pulworthy Brook
- Waldon
- Torridge (Source to Dipple Water)
- Combe Lake
- Woolleigh Brook
- Whiteleigh Water
- Hookmoor Brook
- Northlew Stream
- Torridge (Lew to Estuary)
- Whitsleigh Down Brook
- Cookbury Stream
- Duntz
- Upper River Lew (Torridge)
- Torridge (Combe Lake to Lew)
- Huntshaw Water
- Lower River Yeo (Bideford)
- Lower River Lew (Torridge)
- Medland Brook
- Welcombe Stream
- Philham Water
- Abbey River
- Tamar (River Lyd to River Inny)
- Tamar (Kelly Brook)
- Lower River Lyd
- Lew (Tamar)
- Quither Brook
- Broadwood Brook
- Thrushel
- Wolf
- Upper River Lyd
- Piall
- Newton Stream
- Upper River Yealm
- Silverbridge Lake
- Lower River Yealm
- Tory Brook
- Meavy
- Lower River Plym
- Upper River Plym
- Walkham
- Burn (Tavy)
- Lumburn
- Upper River Tavy
- Lower River Tavy