Babylon Hill
Babylon Hill (grid reference ST583162) in Dorset is a 2.2 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest designated in 1977.[1]
It was also the site of a minor skirmish, the Battle of Babylon Hill, during the English Civil War, which resulted in the Earl of Bedford's Roundheads forcing back Sir Ralph Hopton's Cavaliers to Sherborne.[2]
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- Abbotsbury Blind Lane
- Abbotsbury Castle
- Alder Hills Nature Reserve
- Aunt Mary's Bottom
- River Axe
- Babylon Hill
- Batcombe Down
- Belle Vue Quarry
- Bere Stream
- Black Hill Down
- Black Hill Heath
- Blashenwell Farm Pit
- Blandford Camp
- Blue Pool
- Boulsbury Wood
- Bradford Abbas Railway Cutting
- Brenscombe Heath
- Bryanston
- Canford Heath
- Chalbury Hill And Quarry
- Chesil Beach
- Christchurch Harbour
- Conegar Road Cutting
- Corfe & Barrow Hills
- Corton Cutting
- Creech Grange
- Crookhill Brick Pit
- Cull-Peppers Dish
- Ebblake Bog
- Frogden Quarry
- River Frome, Dorset
- Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas
- Goathill Quarry
- Holnest
- Lambert's Castle
- Lions Hill
- Lodmoor
- Oakers Bog
- Pitcombe Down
- Poole Bay Cliffs
- Poole Harbour
- Portland
- Poxwell
- Radipole Lake
- St Catherine's Hill
- Studland and Godlingston Heath
- Shillingstone Quarry
- Turbary Park
- Worgret Heath
50°56′37″N 2°35′42″W / 50.943721°N 2.594914°W / 50.943721; -2.594914
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