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The name Shooters Hill is thought to derive from the old English for shaw (meaning wooded) and tor (hill). During the era of highway robberies, stagecoaches traveling between London and Dover passed over the hill, and the woodland setting provided excellent cover for highway robbers from which to ambush stagecoaches and make their getaway afterwards.

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