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    At 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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  • Hill, Dorset Bells Hill Burial Ground, in Barnet, London Bell Hill, Washington Bell Hill (Montana), a mountain in Richland County, Montana Bell Hill (New...
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    Cranborne Chase, Salisbury Plain, Hampshire Downs, Chiltern Hills, North Downs and South Downs. The Dorset Downs are bounded on the north, along the steep scarp...
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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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    6 km) southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron...
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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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    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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    Hod Hill (or Hodd Hill) is a large hill fort in the Blackmore Vale, 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. The fort sits on a 143 m...
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    Ringmoor (category History of Dorset)
    settlement in Dorset, England. It is between the villages of Okeford Fitzpaine and Turnworth, and lies on east-facing slopes of Bell Hill, on the Dorset Downs...
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    Woodbury Hill is a hill near Bere Regis in Dorset, England. It is the site of an Iron Age hillfort (a scheduled monument), and the location of an annual...
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    Henry Grey, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, 3rd Marquess of Dorset KG KB (17 January 1517 – 23 February 1554), was an English courtier and nobleman of the Tudor period...
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    hills formed by strata of the Chalk Group; these hills include the Dorset Downs (sometimes called the North Dorset Downs), parts of the South Dorset Downs...
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    Christchurch (/ˈkraɪs(t)tʃɜːrtʃ/) is a town and civil parish on the south coast of Dorset, England. The parish had a population of 31,372 in 2021. It adjoins Bournemouth...
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    Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 72. ISBN 0-7091-8135-3. Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, Central Council of Church Bell Ringers Jo...
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    Pilsdon Pen (category Hill forts in Dorset)
    Pilsdon Pen is a 277-metre (909 ft) hill in Dorset in South West England, situated at the north end of the Marshwood Vale, approximately 4.5 miles (7.2 km)...
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  • in Dorset. Barkhale Camp, West Sussex Coombe Hill Flagstones Enclosure, Dorset Hembury Robin Hood's Ball Stonehenge Windmill Hill Whitesheet Hill, Wiltshire...
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    Badbury Rings (category Hill forts in Dorset)
    Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east Dorset, England. It was in the territory of the Durotriges. In the Roman era a temple...
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    Warren Hill is the elevated part of Hengistbury Head in Dorset, England, overlooking Christchurch to the North and dominating Poole Bay to the West. With...
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    Dorset, England, situated in the Frome valley about 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of Dorchester. The parish includes the hamlets of Grimstone, Ash Hill...
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    Catherine's Hill". Dorset Life Magazine. Archived from the original on 23 November 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2014. Hodges p. 22 St Catherine's Hill and Town...
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    Bridport (redirect from Bridport, Dorset)
    Bridport is a market town in Dorset, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary...
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    Wessex Ridgeway (category Long-distance footpaths in Dorset)
    to as the Greater Ridgeway. Bell Hill Coney's Castle Lambert's Castle Pilsdon Pen Lewesdon Hill Waddon Hill Scratchbury Hill "Wessex Ridgeway". Long Distance...
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    stands on a hill between the village and the coast. Abbotsbury village is in the Dorset unitary authority administrative area, situated amidst hills about 1...
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    Eggardon Hill is a prehistoric hillfort on a hill in Dorset, England. It is located on chalk uplands approximately four miles to the east of the town of...
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    Abbotsbury Castle (category Hill forts in Dorset)
    in south west Dorset, England, situated on Wears Hill above the village of Abbotsbury, seven miles west of Dorchester and the famous hill fort at Maiden...
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  • The Dorset dialect is the traditional dialect spoken in Dorset, a county in the West Country of England. Stemming from Old West Saxon, it is preserved...
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    Symondsbury (redirect from Colmer's Hill)
    Symondsbury (/ˈsɪməndzbəri/) is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Bridport and 16 miles (26 km) west...
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    Belchalwell (category Villages in Dorset)
    Gault and Kimmeridge Clay, both beneath the north slopes of Bell Hill, part of the Dorset Downs. In 1881 the parish had a population of 169. On 25 March...
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    The Bell UH-1 Iroquois (nicknamed "Huey") is a utility military helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace company Bell Helicopter. It...
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    St James's Church, Kingston, Purbeck (category Church of England church buildings in Dorset)
    New Ring of Eight Bells at Kingston, Wareham, Dorset" (PDF). Church Bells. 10: 627. 28 August 1880 – via Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Baldwin...
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