The Dorset walk – Duncliffe Hill
Matt Wilkinson and Anthony Blake climb north Dorset’s famous wooded hill
Published in May ’22
The view to the north from the top of the hill
DUNCLIFFE Hill is something of a freak in the Blackmore Vale, its wooded bulk heaving up to nearly 700 feet out of the meadows and pastures characteristic of the rest of the Vale. To the geologist, it is an outlier of the upper greensand plateau on which Shaftesbury, three miles to the east, is built.
It is covered by Duncliffe Wood, …
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