End of Beacon Plain ‘Racecourse’, East of Hangershell Rock

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This is part of the ‘racecourse’ as shown on Butler Map (Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities). Only briefly mentioned by Crossing, who stated he remembered horse races (around 1870), “attended by a large number of people from the neighbouring parishes.”

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