Walk · Dorset

Hive Beach to Cogden and back over the fields

Burton Bradstock · DT6 4RF

4.2MILES

2hON FOOT

90mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

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

Off-road 85% 15% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 52%Lane & track 33%Road with traffic 15%

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

National Trust Hive Beach car park, Beach Road, Burton Bradstock DT6 4RF

Parking

Pay and display, free to National Trust members, roughly 150 spaces; full from mid-morning on hot days with no roadside alternative

Directions to the start →

A 4.2-mile two-hour loop east along the low sandstone cliffs to Cogden Beach, then inland on farm tracks and back through the thatched middle of Burton Bradstock. Flat by Dorset standards, 90 metres of climb, and the cliff path is grass over crumbling rock with no fence. Start at the National Trust Hive Beach car park, pay and display and free to members, which takes about 150 cars and empties onto a single lane, so aim to arrive before ten in August. The clifftop and Cogden fields are open all year with cattle in places, and while there is a dog water bowl outside the Hive Beach Café the beach itself falls under the Dorset Council seasonal order, signed at the slipway.

THE SMALL PRINTCattle graze parts of the clifftop and Cogden fields, so a lead is needed near stock. Hive Beach has a seasonal summer dog restriction under the Dorset Council dog PSPO, posted on the signs at the slipway; the cliff edge is unfenced and undercut.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

Livestock — leads on

Water bowls

REGION · DORSET

GRID · 50.6955, -2.7295

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.NATIONALTRUST.ORG.UK/VISIT/DORSET/HIVE-BEACH/VISITING-HIVE-BEACH-WITH-YOUR-DOG

Hive Beach to Cogden and back over the fields

House rules, decoded

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