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    Lewesdon Hill is a hill in west Dorset, England. With a maximum elevation of 279 m (915 ft), it is the highest point in Dorset. Lewesdon Hill stands about...
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    Pilsdon Pen (category Hill forts in Dorset)
    thought to be Dorset's highest hill, until modern survey revealed that nearby Lewesdon Hill was 2 metres higher. The hill is a lower greensand Cretaceous...
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    hill. The Wessex Ridgeway passes to the north of the hill summit and Roman fort. The B3162 road passes close to the western end of the hill. Lewesdon...
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    Cranbourne Chase, a chalk downland. The highest point in Dorset is Lewesdon Hill (279 m (915 ft)), in the southwest. There is evidence of Neolithic,...
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  • Giant Clouds Hill Corfe Castle Eggardon Hill Hambledon Hill Hardy Monument Hardy's Cottage Hod Hill Kingston Lacy Lambert's Castle Lewesdon Hill Max Gate...
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    county is Lewesdon Hill, 279m above sea-level. The landscape of much of the county comprises hills formed by strata of the Chalk Group; these hills include...
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    Barnes in Wiltshire. He wrote a popular, but somewhat conventional poem, Lewesdon Hill in 1789, edited William Collins's Poems in 1828, and lectured on poetry...
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    258 metres, Bell Hill is one of the highest hills in the county of Dorset, England and a high point on the Wessex Ridgeway. Bell Hill lies about 5 miles...
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    List of ceremonial counties of England by highest point (category Lists of mountains and hills of England)
    counties of England and Wales in 1964 by highest point List of mountains and hills of the United Kingdom List of Scottish council areas by highest point List...
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  • This is a list of hills in Dorset. Many of these hills are important historical, archaeological and nature conservation sites, as well as popular hiking...
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  • Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, in the Blackmore Vale five miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The hill itself is a chalk...
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    Torberry Hill (also spelled Tarberry Hill and Torbery Hill) is an Iron Age hillfort in the county of West Sussex, in southern England. It is a Scheduled...
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    Dungeon Hill, Eggardon Hill, Flower's Barrow, Hambledon Hill, Hod Hill, Lambert's Castle, Lewesdon Hill, Pilsdon Pen, Poundbury Hill Rawlsbury Camp Duropolis...
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    Maiden Castle, Dorset (category Hill forts in Dorset)
    6 km) southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age...
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    end of his incumbency he published his most well known piece, Lewesdon Hill, about the hill to the west of the village. The Very Rev Hedley Robert Burrows...
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    Bulbarrow Hill is a 274 metres (899 ft) hill near Woolland, five miles west of Blandford Forum and ten miles (16 km) north of Dorchester in Dorset, England...
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  • Trigon Hill is a hill on the edge of a clay pit near Cold Harbour, Dorset, on the Dorset Heaths. It rises about 3 kilometres northwest of the centre of...
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    Mount Caburn (category Hill forts in East Sussex)
    River Ouse. On the summit of Caburn are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort. The hill fort has been repeatedly excavated, by Augustus Pitt Rivers from...
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    Highdown Hill is a hill in the South Downs, with a height of 81 metres (266 ft). The summit of the hill and its western slopes lie in the parish of Ferring...
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    Visible landmarks include: Pilsdon Pen and Lewesdon Hill (Dorset's county top) to the east, Hardown Hill, Langdon Hill and Golden Cap to the south. In his book...
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    the hill's summit is the Iron Age hill fort of Walbury Camp, whilst the flanks of the hill lie within the Inkpen and Walbury Hills SSSI. The hill is one...
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    Belsar's Hill is a hillfort near Willingham, Cambridgeshire, England. Belsar's Hill is an oval-shaped area, 265–220 metres (869–722 ft), enclosing 6 acres...
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    Borough Hill is a hill to the east of the town of Daventry in the English county of Northamptonshire. It is over 200 metres (660 ft) above sea level and...
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    surrounded by hills, including Lewesdon Hill (279 m), Dorset's county top, Pilsdon Pen (277 m), Dorset's second highest point and site of an Iron Age hill fort...
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    Mam Tor (category Hill forts in Derbyshire)
    Mam Tor is a 517 m (1,696 ft) hill near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England. Its name means "mother hill", so called because frequent landslips...
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    Bredon Hill is a hill in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Evesham in the Vale of Evesham. The summit of the hill is in the parish of Kemerton, and...
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  • Castle Hill is a scheduled ancient monument in Almondbury overlooking Huddersfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. The...
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    Seaborough Hill is a prominent ridge, 204 metres (669 ft) high, on the Dorset-Somerset border in the Yeovil Scarplands in southwestern England. It has...
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    Cley Hill (grid reference ST838449) is a prominent hill to the west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. Its summit has a commanding view of the Wiltshire...
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    Hardown Hill (207 metres, 679 feet high) is a hill between Ryall and Morcombelake in the county of Dorset, England. It rises west of the South Dorset Downs...
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