# Cull-Peppers Dish

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Protected area in Dorset, England

Cull-peppers Dish.

**Cull-Peppers Dish** ([grid reference](/source/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid) [SY814926](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Cull-Peppers_Dish&params=50.732714_N_2.264917_W_region:GB_scale:25000)) is a 0.9-hectare (2.2-acre) [sinkhole](/source/Sinkhole) and [geological Site of Special Scientific Interest](/source/Geological_Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest) in [Dorset](/source/Dorset), [notified](/source/SSSI_notification) in 1989.[1]

The name of the site and that of the nearby Culpeper's Spoon were possibly named after the herbalist [Nicholas Culpeper](/source/Nicholas_Culpeper).[2] Locally legends attribute the pits to the devil[3] and another pit near by is named *Devil* *'s* or *Hell* *'s* *Pit.*[2]

The site is used in [Thomas Hardy's](/source/Thomas_Hardy) novel *[The Return of the Native](/source/The_Return_of_the_Native)* as the place where Mrs Wildeve collects holly for a [wreath](/source/Wreath).[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["SSSI detail"](https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteDetail.aspx?SiteCode=S1001170&SiteName=Cull-Peppers%20Dish&countyCode=&responsiblePerson=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea=). *designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk*. Retrieved 29 January 2024.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_2-1) ["Cull-Peppers Dish :: Survey of English Place-Names"](https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/53285289b47fc4099d00007e-Cull-Peppers+Dish). *epns.nottingham.ac.uk*. Retrieved 29 January 2024.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:1_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:1_3-1) Wightman, Ralph (1966). *Portrait of Dorset*. London: Robert Hale Ltd.

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v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset Abbotsbury Blind Lane Abbotsbury Castle Alder Hills Nature Reserve Aunt Mary's Bottom River Axe Babylon Hill Batcombe Down Belle Vue Quarry Bere Stream Black Hill Down Black Hill Heath Blashenwell Farm Pit Blandford Camp Blue Pool Boulsbury Wood Bradford Abbas Railway Cutting Brenscombe Heath Bryanston Canford Heath Chalbury Hill And Quarry Chesil Beach Christchurch Harbour Conegar Road Cutting Corfe & Barrow Hills Corton Cutting Creech Grange Crookhill Brick Pit Cull-Peppers Dish Ebblake Bog Frogden Quarry River Frome, Dorset Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas Goathill Quarry Holnest Lambert's Castle Lions Hill Lodmoor Oakers Bog Pitcombe Down Poole Bay Cliffs Poole Harbour Portland Poxwell Radipole Lake St Catherine's Hill Studland and Godlingston Heath Shillingstone Quarry Turbary Park Worgret Heath Neighbouring areas Devon Hampshire Somerset Wiltshire

[50°43′58″N 2°15′54″W / 50.73271°N 2.26492°W / 50.73271; -2.26492](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Cull-Peppers_Dish&params=50.73271_N_2.26492_W_region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(SY814926))

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