The 30 nearest, easy-to-follow, circular walks, routes & maps to UK Postcode BA9
The thirty nearest, easy-to-follow, circular walks, routes & maps to UK Postcode BA9 in Walk Grade Order
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 5.75 miles (9.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 600ft (183m) |
| Time: | 2.75hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Mells - Wadbury Hill Fort - Mells Stream - Wadbury Valley - Great Elm - The Macmillan Way - Buckland Brook - Buckland Dinham - Clareham Lane - Hill House Farm - Conduit Bridge - Mells
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 5 miles (8 km) |
| Ascent: | 558ft (170m) |
| Time: | 2½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Evershot - Paradise Wood - Evershot Plantation - Banger's Moor - Sares Wood - Lucerne Lake - Melbury Park - The Macmillan Way - Melbury Osmond - Lower Barton - Melbury House - Evershot
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 5.25 miles (8.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 322ft (98m) |
| Time: | 2.25hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Tolpuddle - Southover Heath - Clyff Copse - Tincleton Hang - Cowpound Wood - Athelhamton - Park Farm - Tolpuddle
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.5 miles (12 km) |
| Ascent: | 656ft (200m) |
| Time: | 3.25hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Cheddar Gorge - Black Rock Nature Reserve - Long Wood Nature Reserve - Tyning's Farm - Beacon Batch (Mendip Hills) - Charterhouse - Velvet Bottom Nature Reserve - Black Rock Nature Reserve - Cheddar Gorge
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 4.75 miles (7.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 499ft (152m) |
| Time: | 2.25hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Higher Bockhampton - Stinsford - Lower Bockhampton - Kingston Maurward - Duddle Heath - Bhompston Heath - Puddleton Heath - Hardy's Cottage (Thomas Hardy's Birthplace) - Thorncombe Wood - Higher Bockhampton
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 5 miles (8 km) |
| Ascent: | 561ft (171m) |
| Time: | 2½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Higher Bockhampton - Thorncombe Wood - Hardy's Cottage (Thomas Hardy's Birthplace) - Bhompston Heath - Duddle Heath - Castle Hill - Beacon Corner - Beacon Hill - Puddletown Forest - Hardy's Cottage (Thomas Hardy's Birthplace) - Higher Bockhampton
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.25 miles (11.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 643ft (196m) |
| Time: | 3.25hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Higher Bockhampton - Stinsford - Lower Bockhampton - Kingston Maurward - River Frome - Duddle Heath - Castle Hill - Beacon Corner - Beacon Hill - Puddletown Forest - Hardy's Cottage (Thomas Hardy's Birthplace) - Higher Bockhampton
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.25 miles (11.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 847ft (258m) |
| Time: | 3½ hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Martinstown (or Winterborne St Martin) - Four Barrows Farm - Great Hill - South Dorset Ridgeway - Corton Down - Bronkham Hill - Jubilee Trail - Blackdown - Smitten Corner - Black Down (Hardy Monument) - East Rew Farm - Rew Manor - Martinstown (or Winterboune St Martin).
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7 miles (11 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,037ft (316m) |
| Time: | 3½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Martinstown (or Winterborne St Martin) - Grove Hill Bottom - Great Hill - South Dorset Ridgeway - Corton Down - Bronkham Hill - Jubilee Trail - Blackdown - Smitten Corner - Black Down (Hardy Monument) - Bronkham Hill - Pen Barn Farm - Grove Hill Bottom - Martinstown (or Winterborne St Martin)
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 5.5 miles (9 km) |
| Ascent: | 630ft (192m) |
| Time: | 2.75hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Askerswell - South Eggardon Farm - North Eggardon Farm - Eggardon Hill Fort - Eggardon Hill - Haydon Down - Stancombe Farm - Askerswell Down - Nallers Farm - Askerswell
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 2.25 miles (3.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 164ft (50m) |
| Time: | 1 hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Salisbury - Poultry Cross - High Street Gate - Choristers Square - Salisbury Cathedral - The River Avon - Churchill Gardens - St Martin's Church - Salisbury
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 8.25 miles (13 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,070ft (326m) |
| Time: | 4 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Abbotsbury - The Macmillan Way - Abbotsbury Plain - The South Dorset Ridgeway - Abbotsbury Castle (Iron Age Fort) - Tulks Hill - West Bexington - The South West Coast Path - Chesil Beach - Abbotsbury
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 6.25 miles (10 km) |
| Ascent: | 994ft (303m) |
| Time: | 3.25hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Abbotsbury - The Macmillan Way - Abbotsbury Plain - The South Dorset Ridgeway - Abbotsbury Castle (Iron Age Fort) - Tulks Hill - Labour in Vain Farm - East Bexington Farm - The South West Coast Path - Chesil Beach - Abbotsbury
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.25 miles (11.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,158ft (353m) |
| Time: | 3.75hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Abbotsbury - The Macmillan Way - Abbotsbury Plains - Borad Coppice - Gorwell Farm - Kingstone Russel Stone Circle - Tenants Hill - Littlebredy - Topparts Dairy - The South Dorset Ridgeway - White Hill (Abbotsbury) - Abbotsbury
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 4.75 miles (7.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 811ft (247m) |
| Time: | 2½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
West Bexington - Tulks Hill - Abbotsbury Castle (Iron Age Fort) - The South West Coast Path - Chesil Beach - West Bexington
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 5.25 miles (8.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,234ft (376m) |
| Time: | 3.25hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Durdle Door Car Park - Daggers Gate - The Warren - Chaldon Down - The South West Coast Path - West Bottom - Middle Bottom - Bat's Hole - Bat's Head - The Jurassic Coast - Swyre Head - Scratchy Bottom - Durdle Door - Durdle Door Car Park
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9 miles (14.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,191ft (363m) |
| Time: | 4½ hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Lulworth Cove - West Lulworth - Durdle Door Caravan Park - Newlands Farm - Daggers Gate - The Warren - Chaldon Down - Ringstead Bay - The Jurassic Coast - The South West Coast Path - White Nothe - Whitenothe Cottage - West Bottom - Middle Bottom - Bats Hole - Bats Head - Swyre Head - Scrtachy Bottom - Durdle Door - St Oswald's Bay - Hambury Tout - Dungy Head - Stair Hole,.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 5.5 miles (8.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 722ft (220m) |
| Time: | 2.75hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Easton-in-Gordano - The Gordano Round - Hails Wood - The Bottoms - Summer House Wood - Windmill Hill - Buddings Wood - Downs School - Charlton Farm Children's Hospice - Prior's Wood - Portbury - Portbury Standing Stone - Gordano Services - Easton-in-Gordano
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.5 miles (15 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,388ft (423m) |
| Time: | 5 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Worth Matravers - Swanworth Quarry - The Purbeck Way - Coomb Bottom - Corfe Common - Corfe Castle - Corfe Common - Kingston - Houns-tout-Cliffs - The South West Coast Path - North Hill - West Hill - Renscombe Farm - Worth Matravers
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 4.75 miles (7.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 754ft (230m) |
| Time: | 2½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Worth Matravers - The South West Coast Path - Emmetts Hill - St Aldhelm's (St Alban's) Head - St Aldhelm's Chapel - National Coastwatch Station St Alban's Head - West Man - Winspit - Winspit Bottom - Worth Matravers
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.75 miles (12.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,264ft (385m) |
| Time: | 4.25hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Holford - Holford Combe - Lower Hare Knap - Higher Hare Knap - Black Hill (Quantocks) - Hurley Beacon - Halsway Soggs - Halsway Post - Thorncombe Hill - Black Ball Hill - Thorncombe Barrow - Weacombe Hill - Bicknoller Post - Beacon Hill (Quantocks) - Longstone Hill - Alfoxton Park - Holford
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.25 miles (15.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 584ft (178m) |
| Time: | 3.25hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Bushton - Parsonage Farm - Common Farm - Boradtown Road Farm - Cotmarsh - Tyning Farm - The White Horse Trail - Broad Town White Horse - Broadtown Hill - Preachers' Point - Broad Town - Clyffe Pypard - Bushton
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 5.5 miles (9 km) |
| Ascent: | 397ft (121m) |
| Time: | 2½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Lyndhurst - Emery Down - White Moor - Buckhill Hole - The New Forest - Highland Water - Roman Bridge - Bramble Hill - Allum Green House - Cut Walk - Swan Green - Lyndhurst
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 8.25 miles (13 km) |
| Ascent: | 660ft (201m) |
| Time: | 3.75hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Great Bedwyn - Kennet and Avon Canal - Castle Copse - Bedwyn Brail - Wilton - Wilton Windmill - Kennet and Avon Canal - Crofton Crossing - Crofton Farm - Haw Wood - Stock Common - Bedwyn Common - Chisbury Wood - Great Bedwyn
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 6.5 miles (10.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 420ft (128m) |
| Time: | 2.70hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Great Bedwyn - Kennet and Avon Canal - Crofton Crossing - Crofton Farm - Haw Wood - Stock Common - Bedwyn Common - Chisbury Wood - Great Bedwyn
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 5 miles (8 km) |
| Ascent: | 410ft (125m) |
| Time: | 2.25hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Great Bedwyn - Kennet and Avon Canal - Castle Copse - Bedwyn Brail - Wilton - Wilton Windmill - Crofton Crossing - Kennet and Avon Canal - Great Bedwyn
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 4.75 miles (7.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,405ft (428m) |
| Time: | 3.25hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Uley - Uley Bury Hill Fort - Cliff Wood - Crawley Barns - The Cotswolds Way - Hodgecombe Farm - Cam Long Down - Peaked Down - Uleyfield - Downham Hill (Smallpox Hill) - Hydegate - Uley Bury Hill Fort - Uley
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 8.5 miles (13.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 873ft (266m) |
| Time: | 4 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Aldbourne - The Giant's Grave - Upper Upham - The Ridgeway - Sugar Hill - Four Barrows - Aldbourne
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.25 miles (11.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,303ft (397m) |
| Time: | 4 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Freshwater Bay - Watcombe Bay - Tennyson Down - Tennyson's Monument - Highdown Cliffs - New Battery - Scratchell's Bay - Old Battery - The Needles - Coastguard Cottages - West High Down - Nodewell Farm - Freshwater Bay
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.75 miles (15.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,126ft (343m) |
| Time: | 4.75hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Winchester - Tun Bridge - The Itchen Way - Itchen Navigation - St Catherine's Hill - Pilgrims' Trail - Twyford Down - Morestead Down - Hydes Cottages - Fawley Down - The Allan King's Way - Cheesefoot Head Car Park - Cheesefoot Head (Matterley Bowl) - The South Downs Way - The Pilgrim's Way - Telegraph Hill - Little Golders - Chilcomb - Highcliffe - The Soke - City Mill - Wharf Bridge - Tun Bridge - Winchester
