Blackdown Hill is a prominent elevation, high,
south west of the town of
Crewkerne
Crewkerne ( ) is a town and electoral ward in south Somerset, England, southwest of Yeovil and east of Chard. The civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Coombe, Woolminstone and Henley, and borders the county of Dorset to the s ...
, 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 ...
in the south west of
England
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. Its prominence of means it is listed as one of the
Tumps.
It runs parallel to the B3165 towering over the village of Blackdown and hamlet of Kittwhistle at the foot of the eastern flanks of the ridge.
The open summit of the hill lies at the northern end of a mile-long north-south ridge. The Jubilee Trail runs along the ridge line initially before dropping just below it to the west and then descending steeply down Venn Hill, a northwestern spur of Blackdown, towards the village of
Thorncombe
Thorncombe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It was historically, until 1844, an exclave of Devon. It lies five miles (8 km) south east of the town of Chard in neighbouring Somerset. Thorncombe is situated cl ...
on the far side of the
River Synderford that runs past the foot of Blackdown Hill to the west.
Pilsdon Pen (277 m), formerly thought to be Dorset's highest point, lies about to the south east. To the east is the
Temple Brook which rises north of the col between Blackdown and Pilsdon Pen.
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Hills of Dorset