Pub Walks in Dorset

A brand-new book in our Pub Walks series this volume guides the walker to some of the best most beautiful places in Dorset. The country pubs upon which each walk is based have all been chosen for their good food range of ales history and character. The 20 circular walks vary in length from 2 and a half - 5 and three quarter miles. The walks include coastal paths at Kingston Abbotsbury and Eype; woodland walks at Lytchett Minster Corfe Mullen and Stoke Abbot; downland routes at Sixpenny Handley Horton and Corfe Castle; and riverside walks at Tarrant Gunville Moreton Shillingstone and Hinton St Mary. In addition there are also walks in pretty valleys as at Winterbourne Stickland and Cattistock and through picturesque villages such as Loders and Piddletrenthide. Along the way there is the chance to see Sturt's Follya six-storey brick tower; the grave of Lawrence of Arabia; a church pulpit canopy with two bullet holes in it; a Roman road; stained-glass windows by Lawrence Whistler; the pub where Thomas Hardy was a regular and several old railway trackbeds.