St Catherine’s Hill
St Catherine's Hill is a 53-metre hill in the borough of Christchurch which, together with Ramsdown and Blackwater hills, forms a ridge between the Avon and Stour valleys.- Type: Peak with an elevation of 174 feet
- Description: hill in Christchurch, Dorset, England
- Also known as: “St Catherine’s Hill, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stocks and Dean Court.
Stocks
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stocks are a feet restraining device that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. The use of stocks is seen as early as Ancient Greece, where they are described as being in use in Solon's law code.
Dean Court
Stadium
Photo: Matjax87, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dean Court, currently known as Vitality Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England, and is the home ground of Bournemouth. The stadium has a capacity of 11,307.
Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Peter Facey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Royal Bournemouth Hospital is an acute general hospital in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is managed by the University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bransgore and Littledown.
Bransgore
Photo: Peter Facey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bransgore is a village in the New Forest that developed in the 19th century when a church and a school were built. It has the picturesque character of a rural English village.
Littledown
Suburb
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Littledown is a suburb of Bournemouth, in Dorset, England. Originally it was a small settlement to the south of the much more important Holdenhurst Village, and for centuries it existed as a huddle of farm buildings on the edge of heathland.
Southbourne
Suburb
Southbourne is a suburb of Bournemouth, in the unitary authority area of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England.
St Catherine’s Hill
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Hurn, Christchurch, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.7573° or 50° 45′ 26″ northLongitude
-1.7971° or 1° 47′ 50″ westElevation
174 feet (53 metres)Open location code
9C2WQ643+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 324351713OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q16248061
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