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Bike ride. The Wessex Ridgeway, part one. Ashmore to Okeford Hill.

by Tess of the Vale, posted in Bike Ride, Electric Bike, history, Kids, Map, Running, Walking

Starting the Wessex Ridgeway in Dorset at Ashmore, the highest village in the county, make your way through woodland and down into the Tarrant Valley. Pass an ancient hidden deer park and use historic smuggling routes that linked the coast to town via Cranborne Chase. Climb the mighty Iron Age hillfort of Hambledon Hill, to … Continue reading Bike ride. The Wessex Ridgeway, part one. Ashmore to Okeford Hill.

Caundles

by Tess of the Vale, posted in history, Map, Walking

Two villages in the Blackmore Vale, dominated by streams, lakes, rivers and trees all connected by interlocking lanes.

The A3030

by Tess of the Vale, posted in Map

The A3030, a usually forgotten little road, running west to east connecting the A352 (Dorchester to Sherborne road) to the A357 (Stalbridge to Blandford road). From the high hills that split the falling rain between the Bristol and the English Channels, it enters the Blackmore Vale on the edge of Sir Walter Raleigh's Sherborne Castle … Continue reading The A3030