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Hangingstone Hill is a prominent high point in North Dartmoor, marked by an Army observation post and flagpole. It lies within the Okehampton firing range, so visitors should heed red flags. The summit offers superb views on clear days, stretching to Exmoor, the Quantocks, and other Dartmoor peaks. A military road leads to the top, with the nearby Whitehorse Hill forming a subpeak to the south.
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View from Sheepstor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me thy grey mare, / All along, down along, out along, lee. / For I want for to go to Widdecombe Fair, / Wi' Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, / Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawk, / Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.”
Also on Our DartmoorChurch of St Andrew, Whitchurch — Grade I granite church at Whitchurch with a Norman south door, a chancel of about 1300 and a 15th-century tower, nave and north aisle.
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