Walk · Dorset

Colmer’s Hill from Symondsbury

Bridport

2.6MILES

1h 15mON FOOT

135mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 80% 20% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 45%Lane & track 35%Road with traffic 20%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, 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

Symondsbury Estate car park beside the Ilchester Arms

Parking

Free estate car park, around 30 spaces, shared with the pub and farm shop and often full at Sunday lunchtime

Directions to the start →

The 2.6-mile village stroll behind Bridport, an hour and a quarter, up the little pine-topped cone that appears on every Dorset postcard and back through the hollow ways of the Symondsbury estate. Two short steep pulls on grass, otherwise farm track and lane, and the sunken lanes hold water for weeks after rain. Start from the Symondsbury Estate car park by the Ilchester Arms, free for visitors to the estate and about thirty spaces, filling at weekends when the kitchen is busy; this is working farmland with sheep on the hill and cattle in the valley, so leads throughout, and there is a water bowl outside the estate shop.

THE SMALL PRINTWorking farm on a permissive path network: sheep graze Colmer’s Hill itself and cattle the fields below, so dogs must be on a lead the whole way round.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

Water bowls

REGION · DORSET

GRID · 50.7345, -2.7885

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