| Hambledon Hill |
Originally the hill served as the site of a Middle Neolithic Causeway Camp, such as the one at Windmill Hill in Avebury. The camp was enclosed by causeway ditches to the Eastern end of the hillside, perhaps protected by wooden palisades, evidence suggests the camp was attacked by archers in an inter tribal skirmish. A long barrow nearly 230 feet long, situated on the centre of hill reminds of its furthest antiquity, a second long barrow having been long since destroyed.
The remains of two ramparts encircling the hillside belong to the Iron Age period, when the site acted as a hillfort fortified over several phases. The site was approached from three entrances from the North, Southwest and Southeast, now seen as breaks in the enclosing earthworks. There are the remains of several hut platforms within the enclosure.
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| Map ref: ST 845126 |
| Directions: On a minor road to the West of the A350 |
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| Shaftsbury Abbey |
According to legend, during the Dissolution in 1539, the Abbess of the abbey gave orders to a monk to bury the abbey treasures to keep them safe from the Henry the VIII's men.
The monk was about to tell the abbess where he had buried the treasure, when he keeled over and died of a stroke. His ghost has been seen walking around the abbey ruins in search of the Abbess to tell his secret. The apparition is said to walk on the older lower buried level of the abbey, so he seems to appear with no legs.
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| Map ref: ST 8623 |
| Directions: Shaftsbury reached from the A350 |
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| The Crown Hotel, Poole |
| The hotel is haunted by the sound of children playing and various other ghostly phenomena. In legend deformed twins were kept locked in an upstairs room. |
| Directions: The pub is on Market Street within Poole |
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