Walk · Dorset

Stonebarrow Hill and St Gabriel’s

Charmouth · DT6 6RA
N 880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
5.2MILES
2h 45mON FOOT
235mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 92% 8% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 62%Lane & track 30%Road with traffic 8%

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 car park on the top of Stonebarrow Hill, off Old Lyme Road DT6 6RA
Parking
National Trust, free to members and paid otherwise, about 60 spaces on grass; the access lane is single track with few passing places
Directions to the start →

A 5.2-mile half-day round the eastern half of the Golden Cap estate, about two and three quarter hours, dropping off the ridge to the ruined chapel at St Gabriel’s and coming back along the slumping coast path over Cain’s Folly. The going is grass and hollow-way tracks, muddy and rutted after rain, with several kissing gates rather than stiles. Start at the National Trust car park on top of Stonebarrow Hill, up a steep single-track lane from Charmouth, free to members and with the estate information barn on site; cattle graze the hill most of the year so a lead is needed on the open sections, and the only water is the stream at St Gabriel’s Mouth.

THE SMALL PRINTConservation grazing cattle on Stonebarrow Hill and Chardown Hill: the National Trust asks for dogs on a lead where stock are in the fields. The cliff edge here is actively landslipping and fenced off in places.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed
Livestock — leads on
REGION · DORSET
GRID · 50.7332, -2.8815
SOURCE · HTTPS://DORSET-NL.ORG.UK/LOCATION/STONEBARROW/
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