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'''Scratchy Bottom''' (or '''Scratchy's Bottom''') is a clifftop valley between [[Durdle Door]] and [[ |
'''Scratchy Bottom''' (or '''Scratchy's Bottom''') is a clifftop valley between [[Durdle Door]] and [[Bat's Head]] in [[Dorset]], [[England]].<ref>Rude Britain: The 100 Rudest Place Names in Britain by Ed Hurst and Rob Bailey {{ISBN|0-7522-2581-2}} |
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</ref> A [[dry valley]] in the [[Chalk Formation|chalk]], it is surrounded by farmland at its sides and landward end, with cliffs at the seaward end. |
</ref> A [[dry valley]] in the [[Chalk Formation|chalk]], it is surrounded by farmland at its sides and landward end, with cliffs at the seaward end. |
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Scratchy Bottom (orScratchy's Bottom) is a clifftop valley between Durdle Door and Bat's HeadinDorset, England.[1]Adry valley in the chalk, it is surrounded by farmland at its sides and landward end, with cliffs at the seaward end.
The name is thought to refer to a rough hollow.[2] Scratchy Bottom has been noted for its unusual place name. The location came second after Shitterton, also in Dorset, in a 2012 poll for "Britain's worst place name" carried out by the genealogy website Find My Past.[3]
Scratchy Bottom was the location for the opening of the 1967 film Far from the Madding Crowd, in a scene in which Gabriel Oak's sheep are driven over a cliff by his sheepdog.[4]
50°37′25″N 02°16′52″W / 50.62361°N 2.28111°W / 50.62361; -2.28111
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