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Worcestershire Beacon

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Worcestershire Beacon
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Historic County Top (CoH): The highest point within (or sometimes on) the boundary of each county.
Historic - traditional list of counties from which people usually take their local cultural identity. In the UK they were never abolished, they just ceased to have administrative function. In the Republic of Ireland, most of the original counties are still real and important.

County Top: Worcestershire Worcestershire (CoH)
County: Worcestershire
Classification: Ma,4,CoH,CoU
Meters/Feet: 425.1/1395
Feature: rock between topograph and trig point
Observations: rock is 0.3m higher than ground by trig point 12m S at (SO 76884 45223) and 1m higher than topograph 10m N at (SO 76881 45248)
Survey: Abney level
Source: The Database of British and Irish Hills v18.1 (http://www.hills-database.co.uk)
Copyright: Creative Commons License
Notes: The inclusion of a summit on our site may not always mean the hill is accessible. Some summits may be on private land with no public right of way or open access. Landowner permission must be sought before accessing a hill on private land. Access rights in Scotland are separate from the rest of the UK.

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Worcestershire Beacon

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SO 76881 45232

52.104940, -2.338950

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52°06'17.8"N 2°20'20.2"W

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30U 545275 5772916

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