Walk Route Map do110 Melbury Osmond and Melbury Park from Evershot

Walk do110 Melbury Osmond and Melbury Park from Evershot

In the footsteps of Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Vital Statistics:

Length:	5mls (8km)
Ascent:	558ft (170m)
Time:	2½hrs
Grade:

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Route outline for walk do110:

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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Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:

The Acorn Inn in Evershot appears in Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' as the 'Sow and Acorn'.

Thomas Hardy's mother, Jemima, was baptised and married in St Osmond church. On the north side of the church is the thatched cottage where she spent her childhood.

The poet George Crabbe was rector of St Osmond church in Melbury Osmond from 1783-87.

National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:

Part of this walk follows a section of The Macmillan Way, a 467km (290 miles) linear footpath connecting Boston in Lincolnshire, England with Abbotsbury in Dorset, England. The Macmillan Way is waymarked by a green bow. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Macmillan Way.

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1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (the ones with orange/yellow covers):

117 Cerne Abbas & Bere Regis

1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (the ones with pink/magenta covers):

194 Dorchester & Weymouth, Cerne Abbas & Bere Regis

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