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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Daniel Clark & Abigail O'Leary

UK town's scandalous secret which led to the destruction of lost village

A decision made in the building of a tiny village's docklands eventually led to its total destruction in a terrifying storm.

Hallsands, in Plymouth, was destroyed more than 100 years ago after the storm triggered a terrifying high tide overwhelming the village in South Devon - with most of its houses lost to the sea.

A century later, little is left of the old village which stood just over a mile north of Start Point - apart from two buildings used as holiday homes, which stand precariously perched on a rock platform a few metres above the sea.

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