It is one of the East Hampshire Hangers, a line of prominent hills on the eastern scarp slope of the Hampshire Downs, and reaches above sea level.
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The route climbs up the Yorkshire Worlds through Millington Dale, it is a gentle climb compared to most of the roads up the scarp slope of the wold.
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The scarp slope has also been used for fortification and many examples of this still exist such as Thurnham Castle and on Castle Hill, Folkestone Castle Hill near Folkestone.
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Corscombe village is sited " into hollows and along sunken lanes " on the northern scarp slope of the Dorset Downs, approximately south-south-west from the town of Yeovil in Somerset.
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A slight natural scarp slope is exploited in the positioning of the bank above the ditch, and the top of the bank would have stood up to 7.6m above the base of the ditch.
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The valley's boundary generally follows the top of scarp slopes except at the southwestern and southeastern boundaries where flat upper areas of the Chew Valley grade gently into the Yeo Valley and eastern Mendip Hills respectively.
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Dragon Hill is a natural chalk hill with an artificial flat-top ( situated on the scarp slope of White Horse Hill ), to which clings the legend that it was on its summit that Saint George slew the dragon.
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The soils in the area of the fault scarp benefit from fertile loess deposits whilst, in places, there are steep rock faces on the scarp slopes which are a result of erosion and which are now classified as natural monuments and biotopes.
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The existing scarp slopes were steepened and, on the north-western edge of the fort is an earthen mound, known as Maes Knoll Tump, about above the rests of the fort defences, which is across and above a defensive ditch.
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In the period 1740-1745 William Wrightson employed George Platt, a mason architect from Rotherham, to build a new hall the current Cusworth Hall high on a scarp slope on the Magnesian Limestone removing the Hall, and the family, from the village of Cusworth.
