Black Hill (Herefordshire)
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The Black Hill is a hill (elevation 640m) in the Black Mountains
in Herefordshire
, England at . It rises just west of the village of Craswall
, near the border with Wales
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The Black Hill is known locally as the 'Cat's Back' as viewed from Herefordshire it looks like a crouching cat about to pounce.
Bruce Chatwin
used the Black Hill as the setting for his novel On the Black Hill
.
Black Mountains, Wales
The Black Mountains are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the national border into Herefordshire, England. They are the easternmost of the four ranges of hills that comprise the Brecon Beacons National Park, and are frequently...
in Herefordshire
Herefordshire
Herefordshire is a historic and ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire" NUTS 2 region. It also forms a unitary district known as the...
, England at . It rises just west of the village of Craswall
Craswall
Craswall is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. It lies in the far west of the county, in the foothills of the Black Mountains close to the border with Wales....
, near the border with Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
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The Black Hill is known locally as the 'Cat's Back' as viewed from Herefordshire it looks like a crouching cat about to pounce.
Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin
Charles Bruce Chatwin was an English novelist and travel writer. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill...
used the Black Hill as the setting for his novel On the Black Hill
On The Black Hill
On the Black Hill is a novel by Bruce Chatwin published in 1982 and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for that year. In 1987 it was made into a film, directed by Andrew Grieve.- Plot summary :...
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