Listing HuMP OS grid ST644050 Prominence 121 m Parent range Dorset Downs | Location Dorset, England Elevation 267 m Parent peak Lewesdon Hill | |
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Topo map OS Landranger 194
Explorer 117W Similar Dogbury Hill, Lyscombe Hill, Bulbarrow Hill | ||
Telegraph Hill (267 metres, 876 feet high) is a hill about 1 mile northwest of Minterne Magna and about 10 miles north of Dorchester in the county of Dorset, England. Its prominence qualifies it as one of the so-called HuMPs.
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Map of Telegraph Hill, Dorchester, UK
There is a transmission mast about 600 metres away on the spur to the northeast at High Stoy. Writing in 1906, Sir Frederick Treves described High Stoy as "the most engaging of all Dorset hills—a hill of 800 feet, made up of green slopes, a cliff, and a mantle of trees." Opposite High Stoy is Dogbury Hill, another bastion of the chalk escarpment.
A Franciscan friary lies in the hamlet of Hilfield beneath the hill to the west.
Films
The area of Minterne, Dogbury Hill and High Stoy was the setting for Thomas Hardy's novel, The Woodlanders, Minterne House being referred to as Great Hintock House. The 1990s TV film of Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles was made on Dogbury Hill.
Sport
Telegraph Hill is a popular paragliding spot.