Chardown Hill is a prominent, rounded hill, high,
just to the southwest of the village of
Morcombelake in the county of
Dorset
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in southern
England
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. It overlooks the Dorset coast around 1½ kilometres to the south.
Its prominence of means it is listed as one of the
Tumps.
It is located within the
South Dorset Downs.
The summit area is open and crossed by a
bridleway
A bridle path, also bridleway, equestrian trail, horse riding path, ride, bridle road, or horse trail, is a trail or a thoroughfare that is used by people riding on horses. Trails originally created for use by horses often now serve a wider ...
running roughly north to south. Just south of the actual summit it is joined by a
public footpath
A footpath (also pedestrian way, walking trail, nature trail) is a type of thoroughfare that is intended for use only by pedestrians and not other forms of traffic such as motorized vehicles, bicycles and horses. They can be found in a wide va ...
approaching from
Stonebarrow Hill, the western spur of Chardown. The
South West Coast Path
The South West Coast Path is England's longest waymarked Long-distance footpaths in the UK, long-distance footpath and a National Trail. It stretches for , running from Minehead in Somerset, along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, to Poole Harb ...
passed along the foot of Chardown Hill and above the coastal cliffs.
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Hills of Dorset