St Catherine’s Chapel and the Fleet, Abbotsbury

Three and a bit miles in about an hour and three quarters, climbing the strip lynchets to the lone 14th-century chapel on Chapel Hill and dropping to the reed edge of the Fleet before returning through the village. Steep close-cropped turf on the hill, a stony track along the bottom and a half mile of pavement past the thatch. Use the village pay and display on Rodden Row, which is small at around 60 spaces and the only sensible parking; the Swannery car park is separate and seasonal. Sheep graze Chapel Hill so leads are needed there, the chapel itself is an English Heritage shell with dogs on leads welcome, and the Fleet is a nature reserve where dogs must stay on the marked track and out of the water.