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Legacy Trail 2 - RSPB Lodmoor
...Portland, the landscape is largely man made. Imagine what it would be like without the sea defence. Lodmoor had many uses before the RSPB took over management in the 1980s. Imagine horse racing taking...
Legacy Trail 4 - Around Radipole Lake
...Portland, and get some suggestions of where to explore next.
Putsborough Marine Drive
...Portland spurge, sea holly and sea spurge grow at the Woolacombe end of the sand dunes. A second gradient near Broadsands Bungalow rises for 100 metres at 1:12. Whatever the season there is spectacu...
Slapton Sands
...Portland to Slapton Sands to undertake landing rehearsals for D-Day. Two tank landing ships were sunk in the engagement and 946 American servicemen died. Poor communications led to badly-timed shellin...
St Aldhelm's Chapel
...Portland Sand on the quarry floor, to the Lower Purbeck Beds at the top (see the Corfe Castle Walk). Stay with the track a little further on as it veers right towards the coastguard cottages, but bea...
Smugglers Inn - Spring Bottom Hill
...Portland in 1927 and was wrecked on Pool Ledge, at a place the locals call West Maze. Look out for cormorants on the wreck. There are numerous ledges along this coast, where the limestone has been ero...
Penzance to St Ives - Day 1
...Portland Place. Turn left on Chapel Street at the T-junction and fork right past St Clements Terrace and then left beyond to walk up Raginnis Hill. When the road swings right towards Raginnis, carry s...
Penzance Station to Porthcurno
...Portland Place. Turn left on Chapel Street at the T-junction and fork right past St Clements Terrace and then left beyond to walk up Raginnis Hill. When the road swings right towards Raginnis, carry s...
Fundraising Stories
...Portland. I set off in July and it was every bit as challenging as I thought—but most surprising was the deep inner peace I found whilst walking every day for almost 5 weeks. The terrain of the Path c...
Wildlife
...Portland Bill which is a great spot to see migrating birds, and the chalk downlands of Purbeck which have a rich diversity of flora and butterflies. Wherever and whenever you walk parts of the Coast P...
Smugglers Inn - Osmington and Osmington Mills
...Portland was a target for heavy bombing, although most of the warships had moved further north for that reason, and it was the embarkation point for Allied forces leaving for Normandy in 1944 Turn ri...
Dittisham
...Portland and joined shortly afterwards by HMS Hindustan. In 1953 the name Britannia was given to the newly-built HM Yacht Britannia, and the ship name of the Royal Naval College was changed to HMS Dar...
Start Point
...Portland, which shows up as a low wedge on the far horizon. About a mile off-shore are 'The Skerries', a bank of sand and rock that at low tide can be only about 6 feet below the surface, an...
Sampling Salcombe Hill
...Portland, at least! The National Trust Car Park on Salcombe Hill is opposite the Norman Lockyer Observatory on the Sidmouth to Salcombe Regis road. The Norman Lockyer Observatory is owned by the East ...
Chapman's Pool from Worth Matravers
...Portland limestone, laid down on top of the shale in a later period, before erosion and other processes reshaped the local landscape. When the path from the boathouse down at Chapman's Pool join...
Tyneham Village and Flower's Barrow
...Portland to Poole Harbour. There are also panoramic views over huge areas of heathland whose military ownership has preserved them from ploughing and agricultural development, resulting in a landscape...
Hive Beach
...Portland became the UK's 'Stop Line' against invading forces, and there are many lookouts, gun emplacements and pillboxes on the slopes between the coast and the high ridges behind. Lat...
Roundham Head
...Portland; but this is an equally captivating walk in poor weather, when the waves are dashed against the rocks and send plumes of surf high over the colourful line of beach huts at the foot of the cli...
Corfe Castle to Swanage
...Portland Stone, the 10-metre Globe is one of the largest stone spheres in the world and weighs 40 tonnes. Carry on along the Coast Path as it rounds Durlston Head and bears right to continue through ...
Osmington Mills from Bowleaze Cove
...Portland and the bay, or take the last leg of the ancient South Dorset Ridgeway up to the main road at Osmington to catch a bus back to Bowleaze. (Walking both ways on the Coast Path gives a five-mile...

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