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Hengistbury Head

a Pleiades place resource

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Hengistbury Head, formerly Christchurch Head, is a headland that projects into the English Channel between Bournemouth and Mudeford in the county of Dorset. It is a protected heritage landscape with human activity reaching back to the Upper Paleolithic.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/276663667

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
50.7164098, -1.7521103

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- OSM location of Hengistbury Head (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Place type:
cultural landscape

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Hengistbury Head: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/276663667> [accessed: 23 November 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/276663667 |title=Places: 276663667 (Hengistbury Head) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=November 23, 2024 6:29 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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