Lustleigh Cleave
The Lustleigh Cleave is a steep sided valley above the River Bovey in the parish of Lustleigh on Dartmoor. The cleave has been noted for its beauty since the 1800s, and features extensively in guidebooks.
Description
The Lustleigh Cleave is a steep-sided valley, approximately in length, with the River Bovey flowing at the bottom approximately South-Easterly.The valley is scattered with granite clitter, including rocking logan stones.
Notable features
The cleave contains Hunter's Tor, a granite tor, typical of Dartmoor, and location of an Iron Age settlement, and later Domesday Book settlement of Sutreworde.There is regeneration of temperate rainforest on the Lustleigh Cleave, following a reduction in grazing and swaling.