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St Michael's Church, Brentor
Brentor Rd, Brentor, Tavistock PL19 0NP
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A 12th-century church on a volcanic tor 1,100 feet above Dartmoor — at the start of the Archangel's Way
St Michael de Rupe ("St Michael of the Rock") stands on the summit of Brent Tor, a volcanic outcrop on Dartmoor's western edge, more than 1,100 feet (334 metres) above sea level — one of the highest and smallest working parish churches in England.
Pilgrimage routes aroundBrentor
Founded around 1130 by Robert Giffard and ringed by Iron Age earthworks, this Grade I listed church is the starting point of the Archangel's Way, a 38-mile, 4-day pilgrimage across Dartmoor to St Michael the Archangel in Chagford, and a key node on the Michael line of hilltop dedications running from St Michael's Mount in Cornwall through Glastonbury Tor and Avebury to Hopton-on-Sea on the east coast.
The church is on the Michael line which runs from St Michael's Mount → Brentor → Burrowbridge Mump → Glastonbury Tor → Avebury → Bury St Edmunds → Hopton-on-Sea
It is also accessible from The Archangel's Way, Mary & Michael Pilgrim's Way and King Arthur's Way.
Visit Brentor at sunrise
Climb the tor at dawn if you can: sunrise here brings a panoramic view across Dartmoor's tors and west into Cornwall, and makes it easy to understand why this hilltop has drawn people for centuries.
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Britain’s Pilgrim Places
This listing is an extract from Britain’s Pilgrim Places, written by Nick Mayhew-Smith and Guy Hayward and featuring hundreds of similar spiritually charged sites and landscapes from across Britain.
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