Hangingstone Hill
Hangingstone Hill is a hill in North Dartmoor in the southwest English county of Devon. At 603 metres high, it is the joint third highest peak in Devon and Dartmoor, together with Cut Hill, which lies around 4 kilometres to the southwest.Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cranmere Pool and Grey Wethers.
Cranmere Pool
Pond
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cranmere Pool is a small depression within a peat bog in the northern half of Dartmoor, Devon, England, at grid reference SX604858. It lies 560 metres above sea level on the western flank of Hangingstone Hill, close to the source of the West Okement River, about 500 metres north west of the source of the East Dart River, and about the same distance west of the River Taw's source.
Grey Wethers
Archaeological site
Photo: Herbythyme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Grey Wethers consists of a pair of prehistoric stone circles, situated on grassy plateau to the north of Postbridge, Dartmoor, in the United Kingdom.
Scorhill
Photo: Paul Bedson, CC0.
Scorhill Stone Circle is now the common name for Gidleigh Stone Circle or Steep Hill Stone Circle, one of Devon's biggest and most intact stone circles, situated on Gidleigh Common near the village of Gidleigh in the north east of Dartmoor, in the United Kingdom.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Batworthy and Rowtor Target Railway.
Rowtor Target Railway
Locality
Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Rowtor Target Railway was a military narrow gauge target railway south of Okehampton in Dartmoor, England, with a gauge of 24 inches.
Gidleigh
Hamlet
Photo: Johnragla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gidleigh is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England. Located within Dartmoor National Park, the parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Throwleigh, Chagford and Dartmoor Forest.
Hangingstone Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,985 feet
- Description: hill in Devon, England, UK
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Dartmoor Forest, West Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.65828° or 50° 39′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.95765° or 3° 57′ 28″ westElevation
1,985 feet (605 metres)Open location code
9C2RM25R+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 326061774OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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“Hangingstone Hill” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Hangingstone Hill”
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