diff --git a/spacy/tests/spans/test_span.py b/spacy/tests/spans/test_span.py
index 14c176edc..d22fa52ae 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/spans/test_span.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/spans/test_span.py
@@ -77,3 +77,15 @@ def test_spans_override_sentiment(en_tokenizer):
     assert doc[:2].sentiment == 10.0
     assert doc[-2:].sentiment == 10.0
     assert doc[:-1].sentiment == 10.0
+
+
+def test_spans_are_hashable(en_tokenizer):
+    """Test spans can be hashed."""
+    text = "good stuff bad stuff"
+    tokens = en_tokenizer(text)
+    span1 = tokens[:2]
+    span2 = tokens[2:4]
+    assert hash(span1) != hash(span2)
+    span3 = tokens[0:2]
+    assert hash(span3) == hash(span1)
+ 
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/span.pyx b/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
index 7e2f62171..fb1e5c732 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ cdef class Span:
         elif op == 5:
             return self.start_char >= other.start_char
 
+    def __hash__(self):
+        return hash((self.doc, self.label, self.start_char, self.end_char))
+
+
     def __len__(self):
         self._recalculate_indices()
         if self.end < self.start: