Agriculture

WALKING IN DORSET with retired Dorset rights of way officer Chris Slade

church, which is usually closed but there’s an interesting notice board by the porch giving the history of the parish. Continue westward along the road and, when you reach the cottages you’ll find a bridleway on the right hand side, heading northwards up the first hill. Plod your way up for about half a mile until, at the parish boundary, you meet a footpath heading left, southwest for another half mile and skirting part of Wynford Wood. When it meets a farm track the path turns left for a short distance to meet the road opposite a barn.

Cross the road and join the bridleway that takes you down hill south eastwards along field edges for about half a mile, crossing the Wyn, again by a bridge, to meet the road leading to Higher Wynford. Turn right and after about a hundred yards join a bridleway on your left that takes you steeply up hill south eastwards. When it levels out at the field at the top, continue in the same direction to the far corner.

Here you join the Jubilee Trail. This takes you northwards along the top of the ridge, curving round to the north west to join the road near Manor Farm and back to your starting point.