Hangingstone Hill

About Hangingstone Hill

Hangingstone Hill is a hill on northern Dartmoor in Devon, and one of the highest points of the moor: it is reckoned the joint third highest peak in Devon and Dartmoor alongside Cut Hill, which lies around four kilometres to the south-west. It is one of Dartmoor's thirteen Deweys, and the tenth highest Dewey in England.

The hill lies within Dartmoor's military training area and is closed to the public except at certain times. A military road runs to the summit, which is marked by an Army observation post and a flagpole; on clear days the view stretches to Exmoor, the Quantocks, the Teign estuary and many of Dartmoor's peaks.

The name comes from a logan rock on the north-western hillside, though the stone no longer rocks; the hill was formerly known as Newtake Hill.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Hangingstone Hill (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 50.658, -3.958. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small cairn on mound of grass and stones 10m N of stone hut. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

12-Jul-20

Drop measured from

SX 5922 8832 · 514.7 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Hangingstone Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Willhays (622 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 515 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks