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Hod and Hambledon Hills

Open accessin a National Nature Reserve open to the public

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Hod and Hambledon Hills is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, covering 1 km². It is one of 124 SSSIs in the county. The surrounding countryside is part of Dorset National Landscape National Landscape.

For more of the same, Sutton Combe and Fontmell and Melbury Downs are close by. For arrivals by rail, Gillingham (Dorset) Station is about 13.3 km to the north.

More places to visit near Hod and Hambledon Hills

Photo of the Dorset National Landscape, a National Landscape in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Dorset National Landscape

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Dorchester

Chalk ridges, quiet combes and one of the finest coastlines in England, from Lyme Bay to Purbeck

Photo along the Wessex Ridgeway, a 136-mile long-distance path running from Marlborough to Lyme Regis, south west England.

Wessex Ridgeway

Long-distance path

The prehistoric chalk line continued — from Marlborough across Salisbury Plain and Cranborne Chase to the sea at Lyme Regis.

0.2 km N · Wiltshire, Dorset & Devon

Photo of Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs

National Landscape near Tisbury

Big chalk downland and old hunting country, with some of the darkest night skies in southern England

1.1 km SE

Photo of Blandford Forum, a village in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Blandford Forum

Village

The most complete small Georgian town in England, rebuilt in fine brick after a 1731 fire on the banks of the River Stour.

6.5 km SE · Dorset

Photo of Sturminster Newton, a village in Dorset, south west England.

Sturminster Newton

Village

A small market town in the heart of the Blackmore Vale, joined to Sturminster by a medieval bridge and old working watermill on the Stour.

6.8 km W · Dorset

Photo of Milton Abbas, a village in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Milton Abbas

Village

An 18th-century model village of near-identical white thatched cottages set in pairs up a single curving street below the wooded downs.

10.2 km SW · Dorset