Bookham Knoll

Bookham Knoll
Bookham Knoll
	Horse Close Wood on Alton Common with Bookham Knoll behind.
Highest point
Elevation	211 m (692 ft) [1] [2]
Prominence	43 m (141 ft) [1]
Parent peak	Lewesdon Hill [1]
Listing	Tump
Coordinates	50°50′25″N2°25′28″W / 50.84017°N 2.42454°W Coordinates: 50°50′25″N2°25′28″W / 50.84017°N 2.42454°W
Geography
Location	Dorset, England
Parent range	Dorset Downs
OS grid	ST702046
Topo map	OS Landranger 194

Last updated March 15, 2019

Bookham Knoll is a rounded hill, 211 metres (692 ft) high,^[1] about 1 kilometre southeast of the village of Buckland Newton in the county of Dorset in southern England. Its prominence of 43 metres (141 ft) qualifies it as one of the Tumps.^[1] It is located within the Dorset Downs.

Buckland Newton village in United Kingdom

Buckland Newton is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated in the West Dorset administrative district beneath the scarp slope of the Dorset Downs, 7 ¹⁄₂ miles (12.1 km) south of Sherborne. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 622. The village covers around 6000 acres.

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The hill is largely treeless farmland. It is bounded to the west by B3143, and on the other three sides by a minor road passing through the hamlets of Rew, Sharnhill Green and Bookham, after which it is named. To the east, beyond the lane, a tributary of the River Lydden rises below the col separating the knoll from Church Hill, the western spur of Ball Hill. The Wessex Ridgeway runs from east to west along the ridge formed by Ball and Church Hills and about a kilometre south of Bookham Knoll.^[2]

The River Lydden is a 15.25 miles (24.55 km) tributary of the River Stour that flows through Blackmore Vale in Dorset, England.

At 251 metres, Ball Hill is one of the highest hills in the county of Dorset, England, and is on the Wessex Ridgeway.

The Wessex Ridgeway is a long-distance footpath in southwest England. It runs 136 miles (219 km) from Marlborough in Wiltshire to Lyme Regis in Dorset, via the northern edge of Salisbury Plain and across Cranborne Chase. The footpath was opened in 1994.

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References

1 2 3 4 5 Summit Listings by Relative Height by Mark Jackson, compiled by Jonathan de Ferranti. Accessed on 26 Apr 2013.
1 2 Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger series, No. 194.

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[JF-1] 1 2 3 4 5 Summit Listings by Relative Height by Mark Jackson, compiled by Jonathan de Ferranti. Accessed on 26 Apr 2013.

[OS50-2] 1 2 Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger series, No. 194.