Bulbarrow Hill

Bulbarrow Hill is a 274 metre (900 feet) hill near Woolland, five miles west of Blandford Forum and ten miles (16 km) north of Dorchester in Dorset, England. The chalk hill is part of the scarp of Dorset Downs, which form the western end of the Southern England Chalk Formation. Part of the hill is used for arable agriculture, but most is calcareous grassland. The hill overlooks the Blackmore Vale, and offers views of Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Devon.

Rawlsbury Camp, a five acre Iron Age hill fort, is situated on a promontory of the hill. Little remains of the camp except the twin embankments and intermediate ditch which surrounded it. The hill gets its name from the several barrows, or burial mounds, that adorn the hill. Additionally, a medieval trackway crosses the ridge. A more recent addition is the twin radio transmitter towers used by the emergency services.

Tragedy on Bulbarrow Hill

On 13 February 1969 a Gloster Meteor T7, number WL350 crashed on Bulbarrow Hill (Grid 805068). Both pilots, Mr R Woolley and Fl Lt RV Patchett were killed. The cause of the crash has never been established.

Two local men Mr John Tory and Mr Donovan Browning received bravery awards for risking their lives trying to save the pilots.

External links

* [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=4643 The Megalithic Portal: Rawlsbury Camp]