It is sited on a thin strip of greensand under the scarp face of the Dorset Downs.

Excluding hills such as the Dorset Downs, the average annual temperature of the county is 9.8 to 12 C (50 to 54 F).

It is a chalk downland and thus part of the Dorset Downs.

It is situated in a winterbourne valley on the edge of the dip slope of the Dorset Downs.

Dorset Downs are medium-sized, robust sheep with dark faces and short wool.

It is sited "into hollows and along sunken lanes" on the northern scarp slope of the Dorset Downs.

It is sited in the Frome valley amongst the chalk hills of the Dorset Downs.

It is located within the Dorset Downs.

Both these rivers have cut valleys into the surrounding chalk hills of the Dorset Downs.

It is part of the Dorset Downs.