Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The Bristol Channel District Guide - selected articles - [1934 Edition] . . . .

Heddon's Mouth is next passed, and, rapidly leaving point after point astern, we approach the Great Hangman, a rocky and precipitous hill rising some 1,110 feet above the level of the sea.

Situated about half a mile off the shore here is Copperas Rock, a dangerous reef, which takes its name from having been many years ago the cause of the wreck of a vessel laden with copper ore.

Next comes the Little Hangman, about 760 feet high, forming the eastern extremity of Combe Martin Bay,