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Walks

Members' favourite walks
Members of the Ramblers' groups within Dorset Area have given us basic details of their favourite walks. Each link in the table below takes you to a single page about your walk to view or download or print. Our thanks to Dorset Ramblers' members for their kind supply of these walks.

How to use the walks
Use the start point and the small map or brief description to transfer the walk to your own favourite mapping.

Please submit any questions to the Website Admin Contact shown on our Contact page.

Please note that the walks below were submitted by Ramblers who had walked them recently but over time changes can happen in the countryside. If you find a problem on a public right of way in Dorset, you can report it here.

Walks under 6 miles

Canford Heath Ramble
4½ mls
via Longfleet Drive

A walk in the park
4½ mls
via Ashley Heath

Badbury Rings
5.7 mls
views, history, nature

Corfe Castle near Wareham
4.3 mls
via Knowle Hill
Holes Bay
5.4 mls
via Upton Country Park

Lepe
4.7 mls
coast and sea birds

New Forest Ober Heath
5.3 mls
near Brockenhurst

Weymouth History Walk
5 mls
a circuit of Weymouth

Whitesheet Hill
4.8 mls
via Bull Barrow

Wilverley - New Forest
5.7 mls
the beautiful New Forest

Hengistbury Head
4.5 mls
coastal walk

Find a Ramblers group walk to join here

6 to 10 mile walks

QueensParkIfordBridge8
8 mls
via Iford Bridge

Always follow the
Countryside Code
on any walk.
Verwood circular
7½ mls
woods and heath

Colehill
8½ mls
via Bull Barrow

Old Harry winter walk
6 mls
via Studland

Piddletrenthide
8 mls
via Ball Hill

Higher Bockhampton
6.7 mls
via Puddletown

Isle of Wight, Alum Bay to Yarmouth
8.1 mls
passing the Needles

Worth Matravers circular
7.3 mls
via Dancing Ledge

Upwey
9.5 mls
via Hardy's Monument

Kingston Maurward
7-10 mls
via Stinsford & Puddletown Forest

Choose a Ramblers Route and walk it in your own time and at your own pace.
Grimstone Down
9.5 mls
via Jackman's Cross & Bushes Barn

Purbeck Park to Wareham
7½ mls
on Poole Harbour Trail

Walks over 10 miles

Toller Porcorum & Mapperton
15 mls
via Kingcombe

Kimmeridge & Corfe Castle
13 mls
via Swyre Head

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Dorset winter scene