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Dog-friendly walks in Corfe Castle

Boots on. These are the Corfe Castle walks worth the drive, with lead rules and livestock warnings marked.

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N 1 MILE 8.6 MI · LOOP
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Corfe Castle to Kingston and Houns-tout

Corfe Castle
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8.6MILES
5:00TIME
380mCLIMB
80%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on Water bowls

The longest walk in Purbeck worth doing: 8.6 miles and 380 metres of climb in five hours, over Corfe Common to Kingston, out to the cliff edge at Houns-tout for the view down into Encombe, and back along the ridge. Mixed grass paths, estate tracks and two miles of quiet lane, with a steep pull out of Encombe valley and gates rather than stiles almost throughout. Start from the National Trust West Street car park in Corfe; arrive early or use the Norden park and ride, because Corfe’s parking is finished by mid-morning. Cattle and sheep graze most of the route so leads for long stretches, the Houns-tout edge is a sheer 150-metre drop, and there is a water bowl at the Scott Arms in Kingston, which takes dogs in the bar and garden.

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Corfe Common and the castle ridge

Corfe Castle · BH20 5EZ
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3MILES
1:30TIME
100mCLIMB
84%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

A three-mile hour-and-a-half loop over the unimproved common south of the village, up onto the ridge for the postcard view back to the castle, and home down the old drove lanes. Level to gently rolling, 100 metres of climb, on grass and stony lane, wet in the flushes on the common all winter. Start from the National Trust car park on West Street, free to members and pay and display otherwise, about eighty spaces, with the Norden park and ride and the steam railway as the better bet in high season. Ponies and cattle graze the common under commoners’ rights, so a lead across it, and there is no swimming water although the stream at Boar Mill will do for a drink.

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N 1 MILE 6.6 MI · LINEAR — PLAN THE RETURN
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Nine Barrow Down: Corfe Castle to Swanage

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6.6MILES
3:30TIME
300mCLIMB
90%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

A 6.6-mile linear traverse of the Purbeck chalk ridge, three and a half hours with 300 metres of climb, following the bronze age barrow cemetery from above Corfe over Godlingston Hill and dropping into Swanage at Ulwell. All ridge turf and chalk track, no shelter and no water, with the best long view in Dorset in both directions at once. Start at the National Trust car park in Corfe and finish at Swanage, using the number 40 bus back, which takes dogs free; check the timetable first, as evening services thin out. Sheep graze most of the ridge so leads through the fields, several stiles will need a big dog lifting, and the chalk turf gets slippery enough on the Ulwell descent to be worth care.

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