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Ball Hill, Dorset

Field	Value
name	Ball Hill
photo	Ball Hill - geograph.org.uk - 1322619.jpg
photo_caption	Ball Hill seen from Folly where the Wessex Ridgeway crosses the road between Plush and Mappowder
elevation_m	251
elevation_ref
prominence_m	74
prominence_ref
parent_peak	Lewesdon Hill
listing	Hills of Dorset
range	Dorset Downs
location	Dorset, England
map	Dorset#England
coordinates
grid_ref_UK	ST721034
topo	OS Landranger 194
fetchwikidata	ALL

At 251 metres, Ball Hill is one of the highest hills in the county of Dorset, England, and is on the Wessex Ridgeway.

Location

The summit of Ball Hill lies at the eastern end of a short ridge running from east to west. Its lower, western end is known as Church Hill. To the south a short spur drops steeply to the hamlet of Plush in Watcombe Bottom. To the north the land descends more gradually to the vale of Lydden. The hill is about 4 kilometres southeast of Buckland Newton, 6 kilometres west-northwest of Cerne Abbas and 9 kilometres west of Milton Abbas. Other prominent hills in the vicinity include Lyscombe Hill (261 m) to the southeast on the other side of the hamlet of Folly.

History

There is evidence of prehistoric settlement on almost every hill in the vicinity, with a hill fort on Nettlecombe Tout (a spur of Lyscombe Hill) to the east, cross dykes and tumuli on the flanks of Lyscombe Hill to the southeast and a tumulus and field system on Church Hill to the west.

References

[http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/prominence.html ''Summit Listings by Relative Height''] by Jonathan de Ferranti. Accessed on 27 Mar 2013.
[[Ordnance Survey]] 1:50,000 Landranger series, no. 194

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