Dorset’s highest hills. The best places for sunsets, sunrises, forest walks and wide open views. See their corresponding walks for more details and access.
1. Lewesdon – 279m – Lewesdon
2. Pilsdon Pen – 277m – Pilsdon
3. Bulbarrow – 274m – Bulbarrow
4. Telegraph Hill – 267m – Lyons Gate
6. Melbury Beacon – 263m – Fontmell and Compton Abbas
6. Ashmore Down – 263m – Compton Abbas Airfield
10. Breeze Hill – 262m – East Melbury (skims)
10. Lyscombe Hill – 262m – Lyscombe Bottom
10. Watts Hill – 262m – Cerne Abbas (skims)
10. Gore Hill 262m – Up Cerne
12. Lambert’s Castle – 258m – Lambert’s
12. Bell Hill – 258 – Wessex Ridgeway II
14. Eggardon Hill – 252m – Eggardon & West Compton
14. Toller Down – 252m – Hooke (skims) and Corscombe (skims)
15. Ball Hill – 251m – Wessex Ridgeway II
16. Dogbury Hill – 248m – Dogbury
17. Beaminster Down – 244m – Beaminster Down
18. Black Down – 242m – Hardy Monument & Valley of the Stones
19. Kingsettle Wood – 239m – Motcombe
21. Okeford Hill – 232m – Wessex Ridgeway Part I & II
21. Shaftesbury – 232m – Motcombe
22. West Hill – 224m – Evershot & Rampisham
23. Coney’s Castle – 222m – Lambert’s
24. Drackenorth – 221m – Hooke Park, Kingcombe (skims) North Poorton (skims)
25. Rampisham Down – 219m – Hooke & Kingcombe (skims)
25. Cotleigh Hill 216m – Hooke Park (skims), North Poorton (skims)
27. Bubb Down Hill – 217m – Chetnole
30. Abbotsbury Castle – 215m – Abbotsbury
30. Warren Hill -215m – Hooke Park, Hooke (skims)
30. Blackdown Hill – 215m – Laymore
31. Conegar Hill – 214m Lewesdon (skims)
32. Waddon Hill – 213m – Lewesdon, Netherbury (skims)
Some smaller but well known hilltops:
33. Payne’s Down – 211m – Pilsdon (skims)
34. Bookham Knoll – 210m – Buckland Newton
35. Duncliffe Hill – 210m – Duncliffe
36. Swyre Head – 208m – Swyre
37. Hardown Hill – 207m – Morcombelake
38. Seaborough Hill – 204m – Drimpton
40. Nine Barrow Down – 199m – Rempstone
40. Ridgeway Hill – 199m – Church Knowle
41. Chardown Hill – 194m – Stanton St Gabriel
42. Creech Barrow Hill – 193m – Furzebrook (skims)
43. Hambledon Hill – 192m – Hambledon
44. Golden Cap – 191m – Golden Cap
45. Chaldon Hill – 178m – Durdle Door
46. Shipton Hill – 170m – Shipton Gorge
47. Bindon Hill – 168m – Lulworth and Bindon
48. Houns Tout – 150m – Chapman’s Pool
49. Charlock Hill – 149m – Holway (skims)
50. The Verne – 147m – Fortuneswell
51. Hod Hill – 142m – Hod
53. Maiden Castle – 134m – Maiden Castle
53. Hambury Tout – 134m – Durdle, Lulworth (skims)
54. Colmer’s Hill 127m – Colmers
(The main photo is the view over the Blackmore Vale from Hambledon Hill)
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