Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Woodbury Hill

Woodbury Hill.-- eminence, Dorset, ½ mile E. of Bere Regis and 7 miles NW. of Wareham; was in Roman times an important military post, and gives name to Woodbury Fair, a noted fair for sheep, cheese, and butter, held here in September.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "eminence"   (ADL Feature Type: "mountains")
Administrative units: Dorset AncC

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