Walk · North Yorkshire

Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove

West Lulworth · BH20 5RQ
N 880 YD
3.6MILES
2hON FOOT
230mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 86% 14% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 26%Road with traffic 14%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

Starts at
Lulworth Cove main car park, beside the Heritage Centre BH20 5RQ
Parking
Large paid estate car park, several hundred spaces, full by 10am in July and August with queues back along the B3070; the Durdle Door holiday park car park above is the alternative
Directions to the start →

A 3.6-mile circuit of the most photographed mile of English coast, two hours and 230 metres of climb, up the stepped chalk of Hambury Tout to the arch at Durdle Door, on to Scratchy Bottom and back by farm track and lane to Stair Hole. Hard-surfaced and stepped for the first half, grass and stone after, and busy: this is not a quiet walk between April and October. Start at the Lulworth Cove main car park, a large paid estate car park with the visitor centre attached, which fills completely by mid-morning in summer with queues on the B3070. The clifftop is unfenced above sheer chalk, sheep graze the Newlands fields, and the cove is the one place a dog can swim, though the shingle shelves steeply.

THE SMALL PRINTSheep graze the fields above Durdle Door, so leads through the grazing, and the whole clifftop is unfenced above sheer chalk drops with a long stepped descent to the beach. Dogs are not admitted to the visitor centre building.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead OK
Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 50.6205, -2.2495
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