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Dorchester Circular or to Portesham Walk

Pre-historic landscape of the Dorset Downs with splendid views out to the Jurassic Coast from the South Dorset Ridgeway. Longer extension to the Valley of (Sarsen) Stones

Circular Dorset

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Hardy Monument and Memorial Bench

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Bridehead Lake Outflow (The River Bride) - Detail

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Barrows and Sheep on Bronkham Hill

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Clandon Barrow from Grove Hill Bottom

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Hell Stone Burial Chamber

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Maiden Castle Iron Age Hillfort, in the evening sun

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Bridehead church - Dorchester to Portesham, swcwalk275.

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Along the South Dorset Ridgeway - Dorchester to Portesham, swcwalk275.

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Along the South Dorset Ridgeway, swcwalk275.

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From the train: Dorset landscape at sundown, swcwalk275.

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Bridehead Lake

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Bridehead Lake Outflow (The River Bride)

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Maumbury Rings

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Maumbury Rings

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Dorchester Cemetery

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Maiden Castle Iron Age Hillfort, first view

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Barrow in Field, from Maiden Castle

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South Easterly View from Maiden Castle

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4 Banks and 3 Ditches: Maiden Castle Southerly Ramparts

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Maiden Castle - Southerly Ramparts

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South Easterly View from Maiden Castle

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Between Maiden Castle and Hog Hill

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Bronkham Hill Ridge, with Barrows

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Hardy Monument on Black Down

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Heather on Black Down

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Black Down and the Jurassic Coast

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Hardy Monument

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Bronkham Hill

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Hardy Monument & Black Dowm, from Bronkham Hill

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Barrow/Tumulus on Bronkham Hill

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Shakehole on Bronkham Hill

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Bronkham Hill, Black Down, Hardy Monument

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Bronkham Hill Ridge from Top of Barrow

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Anglo-Saxon Boundary Markers, Bronkham Hill

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Backview of Bronkham Hill

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Isle of Portland in the haze

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Barrows along Ridge Hill

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Ridge Bottom, off Great Hill

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Hanging Copse in Grove Hill Bottom

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Clandon Barrow

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Maiden Castle, from near Clandon Farm

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Barrow in Field and Poundbury beyond

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Brewery Square Turnoff

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Old Brewery Still

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Hell Stone Burial Chamber (close-up)

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Hampton Stone Circle

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Valley on Descent to Portesham

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Descent to Portesham with Views of Jurassic Coast

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The Grey Mare & Her Colts

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Kingston Russell Stone Circle

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Tenants Hill Ascent

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Church in Littlebredy

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Bridehead (House), Littlebredy

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Heart Clump, Littlebredy

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Narrow Valley, Littlebredy Farm at bottom

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Crow Hill, Valley of Stones

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Sarsen Train at bottom of Valley of Stones

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Valley of Stones and Littlebredy Farm

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Valley of Stones

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Barrow in Field and Poundbury

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Maiden Castle, Southerly Ramparts

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Sheepwash in Martinstown (Winterbourne St. Martin)

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Birds over Field, Martinstown

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Kit Hill Bottom

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Flowers in Kit Hill Bottom

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Hardy Monument

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Heather on Black Down

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Heather (Detail)

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Bronkham Hill Barrows

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Along Bronkham Hill

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Brewery Square, Dorchester South

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Nine Stones - off the A35 near Winterbourne Abbas, access via Permissive Path from the Little Chef

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