Hamator Rock is a small rocky tidal island separated from the coast of North Devon at Broadsands Beach between Watermouth Bay and Combe Martin by about 50 metres of water at high tide. It isn't named on the current small scale Ordnance Survey maps but it is on the 1886 edition of the 25" = 1 mile scale map. The rock beyond it is called Inner Stone and the one beyond that is Outer Stone. They are all composed of Middle Devonian sandstone.
To access Broadsands Beach you have to go down c240 steps. When we first tried to access it in December 2020, the path was shut because some of the steps were damaged but that section has now been replaced. Once on the beach, as long as it is at least a couple of hours after high tide, it is an easy stroll to the bottom of the island. There are a couple of routes to the top but the path is steep and coming down is always scarier than going up, so I only went part of the way up. The island has a row of trees growing on the top of it and the rest of the island above high tide level is covered in grass and scrub.
When we visited in April 2022, fulmars were sitting on some of the rocky ledges on the south side of Broadsands Beach.
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