Yes gate
Yes Tor is a 619 m ASL high conical hill southeast of Meldon on Dartmoor in Devon , England . There is a smaller gate of the same name at Walkhampton Common.
It is the second highest point on Dartmoor , along with the two-meter taller nearby High Willhays and one of only three 6,000-foot peaks south of the Peak District National Park in England - the others being High Willhays and Hampster Tor.
It is located in a British Army training area and has limited access.
In the literature
- In his memoirs, Father and Son (1907), Edmund Gosse (1849–1928 ) regards the Yes Tor, near which he lived as a boy, as a harmless and inconspicuous hill.
- The American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson refers to the Yes Tor in his novel 2312 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ N , 4 ° 1 ′ W