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Manga Hill

Grid ref: SX 6334 8503

Manga Hill is a granite hill located near the North Teign river, associated with the old fording place of Mangersford.

  • Grid reference: SX 6334 8503 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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Clapper bridge at Gidleigh CommonClapper bridge at Gidleigh Common. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“It is not an easy place. Walking in from Okehampton direction, for the first hour it's military roads; for the second hour, degraded moor grass and peat cuttings; and for the third hour, the most Molinia-infested, tussock-barren wasteland I have ever experienced on the moor.”

Rosie Marney, Cranmere Pool: on the mother of rivers, and the nature of desolation, 2025

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