Walk · Dorset

Baiter, Whitecliff and Poole Quay

Poole

3MILES

1h 30mON FOOT

20mCLIMB

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The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 55% 45% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 40%Lane & track 15%Road with traffic 45%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Baiter Park pay and display, Baiter Gardens, off Whitecliff Road

Parking

Pay and display, around 400 spaces on the shore, one of the cheaper Poole car parks and normally has room except on regatta weekends

Directions to the start →

Three level miles of harbourside in an hour and a half, out along the Baiter peninsula, round Whitecliff and back past the old quay warehouses, with the whole of Poole Harbour, Brownsea and the Purbeck hills in view. Surfaced promenade and mown grass throughout, flat, and open to the wind off the water. Park at Baiter, a large pay and display right on the shore that stays cheap and rarely fills outside regatta weekends. Baiter and Whitecliff have big open off-lead greens, which makes this the best year-round running ground in Poole while the town beaches are shut, but leads are required on the promenade and the quay itself, where the drop into the water is sheer and the shingle at low tide is sharp with oyster shell.

THE SMALL PRINTBCP order requires dogs on leads at all times on promenades, piers, zig zags and footpaths, which includes Poole Quay; the open grass at Baiter and Whitecliff is off-lead ground. Hamworthy beach across the water is one of the few BCP beaches that allows dogs all year.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

REGION · DORSET

GRID · 50.7125, -1.9740

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.BCPCOUNCIL.GOV.UK/BEACHES-AND-SEAFRONT/WHAT-YOU-NEED-TO-KNOW-BEFORE-VISITING-ONE-OF-OUR-BEACHES/WHERE-AND-WHEN-YOU-CAN-BRING-YOUR-DOG-TO-THE-BEACH

Baiter, Whitecliff and Poole Quay

House rules, decoded

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