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View of Hallsands Village Ruins
DiscoverPlaces to seeUnited KingdomEnglandSouth West EnglandDevonSouth HamsStokenham
View of Hallsands Village Ruins
Highlight • Historical Site
View of Hallsands Village Ruins
Hiking
4.6
(23)
Cycling
5.0
(1)
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South Devon National Landscape
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Andy Smith
April 2, 2023
Hiking
You can't get to the viewpoint at the moment (April 2023). There has been some more erosion and the council are awaiting an inspection before signing the platform at still safe.
51m
September 21, 2023
Hiking
Hallsands was once a thriving coastal village with a church built in the early 1500s. In 1890 the Plymouth navel dockyard expansion began, which included dredging sand off the coast at Hallsands to build the breakwater. The beach at Hallsands started to drop and when the winter storms hit most of the houses were destroyed. A legal battle for compensation began, which took several years before fault was found.
Today what remains of the village is inaccessible and dangerous, but you can see it from the coast path and viewpoint.
Today what remains of the village is inaccessible and dangerous, but you can see it from the coast path and viewpoint.
farbentrost🌈
September 29, 2022
Cycling
the lost village, taken by the sea in 1917
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Elevation 30 m