Lytchett Heath is an area of woods and farmland on 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 ...

between the villages of

Lytchett Matravers Lytchett Matravers is a large village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Dorset, England. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census recorded the parish as having 1,439 households and a population of 3,424. Etymology The name of ...

Lytchett Minster Lytchett Minster is a village in Dorset, England. It lies around north-west of Poole town centre. The village forms part of the civil parish of Lytchett Minster and Upton, Upton now being a suburb of Poole. Etymology The name of Lytchett Mi ...

and the hamlet of Beacon Hill in the county of

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 ...

, England.

Ordnance Survey The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ...

1:50,000 ''Landranger'' map series, No. 195 Part of it is a reserve managed jointly by the

Dorset Wildlife Trust Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is a wildlife trust covering the county of Dorset, United Kingdom. The trust was founded in 1961 as Dorset Naturalists' Trust, to protect and conserve the wildlife and natural habitats of the county. DWT is one of 4 ...

and the

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Trust. St Aldhelm's was built in 1898 as a private church for

Lord Eustace Cecil Lord Eustace Brownlow Henry (Gascoyne-) Cecil (24 April 1834 – 3 July 1921) was a British, Conservative Party politician. Cecil was the youngest son of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury by his first wife Frances Gascoyne and was ...

Etymology

The name of Lytchett Heath is first attested in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

of 1086 as ''Lichet''. This name comes from the Brittonic words that survive in modern Welsh as ("grey") and ("wood")..

References

Geography of Dorset Protected areas of Dorset Dorset places with etymologically Brittonic names {{Dorset-geo-stub