Dorset
Purbeck District
Steeple

Ridgeway Hill

Ridgeway Hill, also referred to as Grange Hill or Steeple Hill, is the third highest point of the in the county of standing at 199 metres, is one of the only hills with a prominence of over a hundred metres, HuMPs, in the county.
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Wikipedia
Photo: Bermicourt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 653 feet
  • Description: hill in Dorset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Grange Hill” and “Steeple Hill”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grange Arch and St Michael and All Angels church.

Monument
Photo: Bermicourt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Creech Folly, is an 18th-century folly that is located near the second highest point of the , Ridgeway Hill, in .

Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Nicholas's Church is a parish church in , . It is dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra. The church is in the Archdeaconry of Dorset, in the Diocese of Salisbury.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Creech and Steeple.

Hamlet
Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in the parish of in the county of , . lies at the northern foot of the about 3 kilometres west of .

Hamlet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of with Tyneham, in the county of . It is situated 8 miles west of the coastal resort town of at the foot of Ridgeway Hill.

Village
Photo: Huligan0, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small on the , in the county of in the south of . It is about 2 miles south of and 2 miles northwest of , and is in the civil parish of .

Ridgeway Hill

Latitude
50.63612° or 50° 38′ 10″ north
Longitude
-2.11505° or 2° 6′ 54″ west
Elevation
653 feet (199 metres)
Open location code
9C2VJVPM+CX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2776438767
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
12609578
Wiki­data ID
Q8537836
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In Other Languages

“Ridgeway Hill” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Ridgeway Hill”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Creech Barrow Hill and Cotness Wood.

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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 “Ridgeway Hill”. Photo: Bermicourt, CC BY-SA 3.0.