Hangershell Rock

Bittaford, Devon

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Main image: Hangershell Rock - 20 metres from location - image by Guy Wareham (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

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The name has evolved over time, with early records showing it as 'Hanger's Shiel' in the 1500s, and later as 'Hangershill' in the 1800s.

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Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks, sites near here The Megalithic Portal, nearest recorded site

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“The place is deprived of every thing that is pleasant or agreeable, and is productive of nothing but human woe and misery. Even riches, pleasant friends and liberty could not make it agreeable.”
Charles Andrews, The Prisoners' Memoirs, or, Dartmoor Prison, 1815

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