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The Dorset Downs are bounded on the north, along the steep scarp face, by the Blackmore Vale, a large clay and limestone valley.On the east, the Downs were once, thousands of years ago, continuous with Cranborne Chase, but the River Stour now cuts a valley between them, [dubious – discuss] [citation needed] which is the location of Blandford Forum and the eastern boundary of the downs.
Dorchester (/ ˈ d ɔːr tʃ ɛ s t ər / DOR-ches-tər) is the county town of Dorset, England.It is situated between Poole and Bridport on the A35 trunk route. A historic market town, Dorchester is on the banks of the River Frome to the south of the Dorset Downs and north of the South Dorset Ridgeway that separates the area from Weymouth, 7 miles (11 km) to the south.
The Dorset National Landscape area includes a variety of landscape types. [3] A large inland part of the area covers the Dorset Downs, an area of chalk downland with escarpments and chalk stream valleys noted for its calcareous grassland habitat. The Purbeck Hills form a separate narrow chalk ridge with escarpments in the southeast of the area.
South Dorset Downs: Highest point on the south coast of England. Chaldon Hill [4] 178 90 5] (est.) sub-HuMP Lewesdon Hill [9] South Dorset Downs: Dorset coast, W of Swyre Head and Lulworth Cove. Tumulus at summit. Bindon Hill [4] 168 94 TuMP, sub-HuMP Lewesdon Hill [9] South Dorset Downs: Dorset coast, immediately E of Lulworth Cove: The Verne ...
Lyscombe Hill (262 metres, 860 feet high) is a hill near Melcombe Bingham about 14 kilometres north-northeast of Dorchester in the county of Dorset, England.It is part of the Dorset Downs and is listed as a so-called HuMP.
Rampisham Down is a chalk hill in the Dorset Downs, eight miles north west of Dorchester in west Dorset, England.The highest part of the hill is 221 metres (720 feet). To the north east of the hill is the Frome valley and the village of Rampisham, to the south west is the Hooke valley and the village of Hooke.
Rampisham (/ ˈ r æ m p ɪ ʃ əm / [2] or / ˈ r æ n s əm / [3]) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated approximately 11 miles (18 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester. The village is sited on greensand in a valley surrounded by the chalk hills of the Dorset Downs.
The Dorset Downs are chalk hills formed by strata of the Chalk Group, a geological unit which also covers much of southern and eastern England. The chalk which comprises the downs was formed in the Cretaceous period, when the area now known as Dorset was below sea-level. The Dorset Downs are the largest outcrop of the chalk within Dorset, and ...