Blackdown
Blackdown, or Black Down, summit elevation 279.7 metres AMSL, is the highest point in both the historic county of Sussex and the South Downs National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Marknesbitt, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 919 feet
- Description: hill in West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Blackdown, West Sussex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blackdown House and Haslemere Town Hall.
Haslemere Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haslemere Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Haslemere, Surrey, England. The structure, which serves as the meeting place of Haslemere Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
Haslemere Educational Museum
Museum
Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haslemere Educational Museum was founded in 1888 by the eminent surgeon Sir Jonathan Hutchinson to display his growing collection of natural history specimens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fernhurst and Haste Hill.
Fernhurst
Village
Photo: Charlesdrakew, Public domain.
Fernhurst is a village and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England, on the A286 Milford, Surrey, to Chichester road, 3 miles south of Haslemere and 4 miles north of Midhurst.
Haste Hill
Locality
Haste Hill is a hill near Haslemere, Surrey in England which was probably the original settlement of the town of Haslemere. It was used as the site of a semaphore station in the nineteenth century.
Haslemere
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haslemere is a town in Surrey. Haslemere marks the western end of the Greensand Way footpath which extends for 110 miles to Hamstreet in Kent via the high Greensand Ridge, and is one end of the short Serpent Trail which connects to the Sussex Border Path.
Blackdown
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Lurgashall, Chichester District, West Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.0582° or 51° 3′ 30″ northLongitude
-0.6896° or 0° 41′ 23″ westElevation
919 feet (280 metres)Open location code
9C3X3856+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 262686OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Blackdown” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Blackdown, West Sussex”
- Latin: “Black Down (Sussexia)”
- Latin: “Black Down”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blackdown i Sussex”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Blackdown”. Photo: Marknesbitt, Public domain.