Travelling through Thomas’s Hardy’s Vale of the Little Dairies

Distance: 16 miles/23km – shorter or longer routes optional (see map)
Time: 3 hours
Total climb: 400ft
Max height: 300ft
Min height: 160ft
Terrain: Road.
Exertion: Easy.
Start: At The Crown Inn in Marnhull (DT10 1LH).
Map: OS Explorer 129 Yeovil and Sherborne.
How to get there: From Sturminster Newton, travel north on the B3092. On entering the village stay on the same road following it around to the right, away from St Gregory’s church. The pub is on your left.

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