Babylon Hill

Babylon Hill (grid reference ST576155) in Dorset is a 2.2 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest designated in 1977.^[1]

It was also the site of a minor skirmish, the Battle of Babylon Hill, during the English Civil War, which resulted in the Earl of Bedford's Roundheads forcing back Sir Ralph Hopton's Cavaliers to Sherborne.^[2]

References

↑ English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 29 August 2006)
↑ Bush, Robin. Somerset: The Complete Guide. pp. 243–246.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset

Abbotsbury Blind Lane Abbotsbury Castle Aunt Mary's Bottom River Axe Babylon Hill Batcombe Down Belle Vue Quarry Bere Stream Black Hill Down Black Hill Heath Blashenwell Farm Pit Blandford Camp Blue Pool Boulsbury Wood Bradford Abbas Railway Cutting Brenscombe Heath Bryanston Canford Heath Chalbury Hill And Quarry Chesil Beach Christchurch Harbour Conegar Road Cutting Corfe & Barrow Hills Corton Cutting Creech Grange Crookhill Brick Pit Cull-Peppers Dish Ebblake Bog Frogden Quarry River Frome, Dorset Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas Goathill Quarry Holnest Lambert's Castle Lions Hill Lodmoor Oakers Bog Pitcombe Down Poole Harbour Portland Poxwell Radipole Lake St Catherine's Hill Shillingstone Quarry Worgret Heath

Neighbouring areas Devon Hampshire Somerset Wiltshire

Coordinates: 50°56′15″N 2°36′17″W / 50.93738°N 2.60479°W / 50.93738; -2.60479

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