Creech Barrow Hill is a steep, conical hill, from LIDAR data published by the Environment Agency, flown c.20

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Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...

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, and the highest point of the

Dorset Heaths The Dorset Heaths form an important area of heathland within the Poole Basin in southern England. Much of the area is protected. Extent According to Natural England, who have designated the Dorset Heaths as National Character Area 135, the ...

. It has been described as "one of Dorset's most distinctive landmarks."''The Purbeck 'volcano' ''
at dorsetlife.co.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2013. Geologically, it is also the highest

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hill in England. There is a single,

round barrow A round barrow is a type of tumulus and is one of the most common types of archaeological monuments. Although concentrated in Europe, they are found in many parts of the world, probably because of their simple construction and universal purpose. ...

at the summit that gives Creech Barrow Hill its name and, from some angles, the appearance of a

double summit Double, The Double or Dubble may refer to: Mathematics and computing * Multiplication by 2 * Double precision, a floating-point representation of numbers that is typically 64 bits in length * A double number of the form x+yj, where j^2=+1 * A ...

. To the southeast is Stone Hill Down

long barrow Long barrows are a style of monument constructed across Western Europe in the fifth and fourth millennia BCE, during the Early Neolithic period. Typically constructed from earth and either timber or stone, those using the latter material repres ...

.''Creech Barrow''
at themodernantiquarian.com. Retrieved 10 April 2013. The name of the hill means "hill" three times. "Creech" is derived from the

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''crich'' = hill and "barrow" from the

Saxon The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...

for "mound".''East Creech''
at dorsetlife.co.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2013. The hill is a classic viewpoint that was once the site of King John's hunting lodge. The barrow has an OS trig pillar 10m from the highest point. It is shown as 193m on Ordnance Survey maps, the height being levelled in 1951. Following subsidence, the pillar was downgraded to Order 4 in 1971 and is shown without a height in OS legacy benchmark data''Trigpointing UK''
at trigpointing.uk. Retrieved 5 June 2025.

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