Dorset Walks

2008 - 2009 Programme of walks
around South Dorset
with Bob Ford




Just turn up at any of the walks you want to; £4.00 per walk.
Each walk (apart from the all day walks) lasts approx. 90 minutes and covers 1 - 2 miles.

click on the map references to see a map showing each starting point

reports archive ...

4 Wednesdays in September:
3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Friday October 3rd 2.30 pm
Symondsbury
Meet by the church,
map reference SY744936 (see map)

5 Wednesdays in October:
1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Friday October 31st 2.30 pm
Middlebere Lake   see trip report
Meet at the start of the road to Middlebere Farm, on the road from Corfe to Arne,
map reference SY963854 (see map)

3 Wednesdays in November:
5th, 12th, 19th (no walk on 26th)
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Friday November 28th 2.30 pm
Chapel Hill, Abbotsbury  see trip report
Meet in the main village car park,
map reference SY579852 (see map)

5 Wednesdays in December:
3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Friday January 2nd 2.30 pm
Holton Lea see trip report
Meet in the pull-in a half-mile along the road to Holton Lea,
map reference SY956916 (see map)

4 Wednesdays in January:
7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Friday January 30th 2.30 pm
Houns Tout   see trip report
Meet in the Houns Tout car park just west of Kingston,
map reference SY954794 (see map)

3 Wednesdays in February:
4th, 11th, 25th (no walk on 18th)
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Friday February 27th 2.30 pm
Abbotsbury Beach   see trip report
Meet at the Old Coastguards Cottages, one mile along the beach north-west of the beach car park,
map reference SY543856 (see map)

4 Wednesdays in March:
4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Friday March 27th 2.30 pm
St Aldhelm's Head   see trip report
Meet at the car park half a mile west of Worth Matravers,
map reference SY964775 (see map)

4 Wednesdays in April:
1st, 8th, 22nd, 29th (no walk on 15th)
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Friday April 24th 2.30 pm
Higher Hyde Heath, Bovington   see trip report
Meet at the N.E. side of the Puddletown Road, between Bovington & Wareham. Small car park just W. of the approach road to the golf club, tucked away behind a group of single-storey industrial buildings at Hanson Yard,
map reference SY854899 (see map)

3 Wednesdays in May:
13th, 20th, 27th (no walk on 6th)
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Friday May 29th 2.30 pm
Kingcombe Meadows   see trip report
Meet at the Pound Cottage car park, turn off the A356 Maiden Newton to Crewkwerne road just before you get to the Rampisham Down transmitter station and carry on down a very narrow road into Lower Kingcombe. The car park is just past the Kingcombe Centre, map reference SY 554990 (see map)

3 Wednesdays in June:
10th, 17th, 24th (no walk on 3rd)
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Thursday June 25th 9.00 pm
Tadnoll Heath, Winfrith   see trip report
Meet at the reserve entrance on Redbridge Road between East Knighton and Crossways,
map reference SY791877 (see map)

4 Wednesdays in July:
1st, 15th, 22nd, 29th (no walk on 8th)
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Friday July 31st 2.30 pm
Badbury Rings, Wimborne  see trip report
Park in the National Trust car park,
map reference ST959030 (see map)

Wednesday August 19th:
10.00 am - 2.00 pm
Butterfly Identification Workshop

A FREE 4-hour workshop sponsored by the Open University to publicise their iSpot web site. Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

4 Wednesdays in August:
5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Portland Cliffs and Quarries
  see trip reports
Meet outside the main entrance, The Heights Hotel, Portland,
map reference SY688729 (see map)

Friday August 28th 2.30 pm
Blacknoll Heath, Winfrith  see trip report
Meet at the pull-in by the reserve entrance,
map reference SY805863 (see map)


For more information or telephone 01305 750118 or 07980967473 (mobile).

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