Povington Hill

#1473 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Hill

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Povington Hill, at 198 metres high, is one of the highest points on the chain of the Purbeck Hills in south Dorset on the southern coast of England. Its prominence of 107 metres means it is listed as one of the Tumps, although map sources suggest this honour should go to Ridgeway Hill further east. ()

Elevation: 650 ftProminence: 351 ftCoordinates: 50°37'54"N, 2°9'40"W

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Povington Hill – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Blue Pool, Lulworth Estate, Fossil Forest, Swyre Head.

3.3 miNE
Lake, Museum, Nature and wildlife
Blue Pool
84 min walk • Blue Pool is a flooded, disused clay pit where Purbeck ball clay was once extracted. It is now a lake within the Furzebrook Estate, a 25-acre park of heath woodland and gorse near Furzebrook on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset, southern England.
2.1 miW
Park
Lulworth Estate, Lulworth
53 min walk • The Lulworth Estate is located in central south Dorset, England. Its most notable landscape feature include a five-mile stretch of coastline on the Jurassic Coast. Part of the area is a World Heritage Site. The historic estate includes the Lulworth Castle and Park.
3.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Fossil Forest, Lulworth
94 min walk • The Fossil Forest is the remains of an ancient submerged forest from Jurassic times, located to the east of Lulworth Cove on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. It lies on the Jurassic Coast, on a wide ledge in the seaside cliff. The site is within the Lulworth Ranges and thus has restricted access.
3.4 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Swyre Head
88 min walk • Swyre Head, Lulworth is a hill and sea cliff which lies on the Jurassic Coast between Bat's Head to the west and Durdle Door to the east, close to Lulworth in Dorset, England.
2.2 miSE
Tower
Clavell Tower
56 min walk • Clavell Tower, also known as Clavell Folly or the Kimmeridge Tower, is a Grade II listed Tuscan style tower built in 1830. It lies on the Jurassic Coast, on the top of Hen Cliff just east of Kimmeridge Bay in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England.
2 miSE
Museum, Specialty museum, Natural history museum
The Etches Collection
52 min walk • The Etches Collection is an independent fossil museum located in the village of Kimmeridge, Purbeck, Dorset, England.
4.2 miNE
Forts and castles
Wareham Castle and town defences, Wareham
108 min walk • Wareham Castle and the town defences, known locally as the Walls, were fortifications in the town of Wareham in Dorset, England.
2.2 miW
Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture, Gothic Revival architecture
Lulworth Castle, Lulworth
57 min walk • Lulworth Castle, in East Lulworth, Dorset, England, situated south of the village of Wool, is an early 17th-century hunting lodge erected in the style of a revival fortified castle, one of only five extant Elizabethan or Jacobean buildings of this type.
4.3 miNE
Church
Lady St Mary Church, Wareham
111 min walk • The parish church of Lady St. Mary, Wareham is a church of Anglo-Saxon origin in the town of Wareham, Dorset, in England. The church is notable as the possible burial place of King Beorhtric, and for the discovery of five stones with Brittonic inscriptions dating to the 7th to 9th centuries.
2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Purbeck Hills
52 min walk • The Purbeck Hills, also called the Purbeck Ridge or simply the Purbecks, are a ridge of chalk downs in Dorset, England. It is formed by the structure known as the Purbeck Monocline.
1.5 miW
Forts and castles
Flower's Barrow, Lulworth
40 min walk • Flower’s Barrow is an Iron Age hillfort, built over 2500 years ago, above Worbarrow Bay in Dorset on the south coast of England.