Rampisham Down

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Rampisham Down
Rampisham Down from the north
Elevation	221 m (725 ft)
Location	Dorset Downs, England
Prominence	5 m
Topo map	OS Landranger 194
OS grid reference	ST544014

Rampisham Down is a steep 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. The A356 road between Dorchester and Crewkerne cuts across the down.

The hill is the location of the BBC's south west England radio transmitter station which broadcasts FM radio to Dorset, Devon and Somerset, long wave radio to south west England, and is one of the main transmitters of the BBC World Service in Europe. There are 26 transmitter pylons on the down.