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Green lanes in Dartmoor

Every lane on our Dartmoor map is a BOAT or UCR, and 94 of them are open to motorcycles. Here’s where they are and the longest ones to ride.

94lanes open to motorcycles*
41 kmof legal lane
0restricted byways, no motors
0named lanes with a restriction

*BOATs and UCRs inside the park boundary, excluding sections under a permanent or current closure. Legal status changes, check before you ride.

Every mapped lane in the park

Inside the real park boundary. Numbers match the longest lanes list below. Tap the key to show or hide a layer.

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What you can ride

94 mapped lanes and byways inside the boundary, by legal type.

77%unsurfaced, where the surface is known
1lane with a ford

Difficulty

  • 11 Easy
  • 1 Moderate
  • 4 Hard
  • 78 Not graded yet

All estimated from OpenStreetMap trail-condition tags, not a rider’s assessment.

Longest open lanes

Named lanes open to motorcycles, each measured end to end across all its mapped sections.

  1. 1
    Deave Lane1.1 km
    BOAT
  2. 2
    Skitt Lane0.7 km
    UCR
  3. 3
    Little John's Walk0.7 km
    BOATUnsurfacedEst. Easy
  4. 4
    Merryfield Lane0.6 km
    BOATUnsurfaced

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Places worth a stop

25 historic sites and landmarks inside the park, all on the map. Access rights not checked, look before you visit.

Childe's Tomb
Monument Childe's Tomb

A granite memorial cross on Dartmoor marking a supposed medieval burial, tied to the legend of a nobleman who died in a snowstorm after sheltering inside his gutted horse, with rival monks racing to claim his body and the estate promised to whoever buried him.

Becky Falls
Attraction Becky Falls

A twin 20-metre waterfall on Dartmoor's Becka Brook, originally marked on Ordnance Survey maps as Becka Falls until the site was renamed after being developed into a woodland tourist attraction.

Yellow Mead Stone Circle
Archaeological site Yellow Mead Stone Circle

A Bronze Age monument on Dartmoor of four concentric stone rings that once surrounded a burial cairn, restored in 1921 and confirmed accurate by a geophysical survey in 2008.

Grey Wethers
Archaeological site Grey Wethers

Two Bronze Age stone circles on Dartmoor set almost exactly north to south of each other, restored in 1909 after many stones had fallen, their name recalling a folk tale of a farmer duped into buying them as sheep.

Kitty Jay's Grave
Memorial Kitty Jay's Grave

A Dartmoor roadside grave traditionally said to hold a servant girl denied burial in consecrated ground after taking her own life, kept mysteriously supplied with fresh flowers by an unknown hand and said to have influenced elements of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Haytor Rocks
Point of interest Haytor Rocks

A twin-topped granite tor on Dartmoor's eastern edge, whose quarries supplied stone for the 1831 rebuilding of London Bridge and which was later used as a film location for 1953's Knights of the Round Table and a Tour of Britain cycling finish.

Spinsters' Rock
Archaeological site Spinsters' Rock

Devon's only surviving Neolithic dolmen, three granite pillars near Drewsteignton supporting a heavy capstone, which collapsed in 1862 and was re-erected the same year.

Finch Foundry (NT)
Museum Finch Foundry (NT)

A water-powered Victorian forge in Sticklepath run by the Finch family from 1814 until 1960, once turning out around 400 edge tools a day using tilt hammers driven by its still-working waterwheels.

Great Rock Mines (dis)
Archaeological site Great Rock Mines (dis)

A former micaceous haematite mine north of Bovey Tracey, Dartmoor's last working mine until it closed in 1969, its mineral once processed into the rust-proof paint used on the Royal Albert Bridge and Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Hut Circle
Archaeological site Hut Circle

A Bronze Age ceremonial landscape on Dartmoor with three stone rows, cairns and hut circles, dominated by the tallest standing stone on the moor, a 14-foot menhir toppled at some point in history and re-erected in 1893.

Questions riders ask

Can you ride green lanes in Dartmoor?

Yes, on lanes with the right legal status. We've mapped 94 BOATs and UCRs inside Dartmoor that are open to motorcycles, about 41 km in total.

Are any green lanes in Dartmoor closed?

We haven't found a named lane inside Dartmoor with a current restriction yet. That doesn't mean there are none, so always check a lane's current status before you ride.

What is the longest green lane in Dartmoor?

Of the named lanes open to motorcycles, Deave Lane is the longest we've mapped inside the park, at about 1.1 km.

Are there GPX routes for Dartmoor?

Not a ready-made one yet. You can build your own from Dartmoor's lanes with Holloway Premium's route planner and export it as a GPX file.

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Lane data from OpenStreetMap contributors and council rights of way records. Park boundary © Natural England / Natural Resources Wales, via OpenStreetMap, OGL. Reference only: legal status changes, check signage and current Traffic Regulation Orders before riding.

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