Hangingstone Hill, is a hill in North

Dartmoor Dartmoor is an upland area in southern Devon, England. The moorland and surrounding land has been protected by National Park status since 1951. Dartmoor National Park covers . The granite which forms the uplands dates from the Carboniferous ...

in the southwest English county of

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. 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. The hill lies within the

military training area A military training area, training area (Australia, Ireland, UK) or training centre (Canada) is land set aside specifically to enable military forces to train and exercise for combat. Training areas are usually out of bounds to the general public, ...

on Dartmoor and is not accessible to the public except at certain times. There is a military road to the summit, which is marked by an Army observation post and flagpole. On clear days, the views are "superb",''Dartmoor Walks: Hangingstone Hill''
at www.richkni.co.uk, retrieved 9 July 2016. extending to

Exmoor Exmoor is loosely defined as an area of hilly open moorland in west Somerset and north Devon in South West England. It is named after the River Exe, the source of which is situated in the centre of the area, two miles north-west of Simonsbath. ...

, the Quantocks, the

River Teign The River Teign is a river in the county of Devon, England. It is long and rises on Dartmoor, becomes an estuary just below Newton Abbot and reaches the English Channel at Teignmouth. Toponymy The river-name 'Teign' is first attested in an An ...

estuary and many of Dartmoor's peaks.''Legendary Dartmoor: Hangingstone Hill''
at www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk, retrieved 9 July 2016. The name of the hill is derived from a

logan rock The Logan Rock ( kw, Men Omborth, meaning ''balanced stone'') near the village of Treen in Cornwall, England, UK, is an example of a logan or rocking stone. Although it weighs some 80 tons, it was dislodged in 1824 by a group of British seamen, ...

on the northwest hillside, which, however, no longer rocks. It was formerly known as Newtake Hill. Hangingstone is one of Dartmoor's thirteen Deweys and the tenth highest in England. About 600 metres almost due south is the summit of Whitehorse Hill which is a

subpeak A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term (mountain top) is generally used only for a m ...

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of Hangingstone Hill. It has a drop of less than 10m.

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{{Reflist Hills of Devon Dartmoor