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Dorset


Promoted Routes

RouteLocationLength
Toller Down/Eggardon HillDorset20 miles
32km
North of SherbourneDorset15 miles
24km
Corscombe and HookeDorset12 miles
19km
Up Sydling & Sydling St NicholasDorset12 miles
19km
Up CerneDorset5 1/2 miles
9km
Piddle Inn RideDorset7 miles
11km
Piddlehinton & Forston RideDorset10 1/2 miles
17km
Toller Porcorum & West ComptonDorset9 miles
14km
Plush RideDorset7 miles
11km
Higher Melcombe & Dorset GapDorset5 miles
8km
Eggardon & Powertock RideDorset12 1/2 miles
20km
Mapperton & Loscombe RideDorset6 miles
10km
Little Bredy, Bridehead & Sea RideDorset10 miles
16km
Hardy's Monument RideDorset7 miles
11km
Stubhampton & Ashmore RideDorset12 miles
19km
Tarrant Gunville, Harbins Park and ChettleDorset11 miles
18km
Badbury Ring, Ackling Dyke & Tarrant MonktonDorset12 miles
19km
Bottle Bush Down, Gussage All Saints, Ackling DykeDorset10 miles
16km
Pentridge, Bokerley Ditch & CranborneDorset9 miles
14km
Church Knowle Valley RideDorset12 miles
19km
The Old Harry Rocks RideDorset17 miles
27km
Heritage Coastal Ride East Knighton to HolworthDorset13 miles
21km
Durweston, Stourpaine, Hod and Hambledon HillsDorset7 miles
11km
Durweston and Houghton North DownDorset8 miles
13km
Bulbarrow Hill, Winterbourne Houghton and Milton AbbasDorset11 miles
18km
Bulbarrow Hill, Dorsetshire Gap and Ansty CrossDorset9 miles
14km

Other riding access opportunities

RouteLocation
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Dorset on Horseback

This book contains a guide to 25 interesting circular trails in Dorset.

Copies are available from British Horse Society, Stoneleigh Deer Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 2XZ.


Where to stay
People wishing to try out the riding away from home may wish to know where they can keep their horses overnight. A useful book entitled Bed and Breakfast for Horses which lists places to keep a horse overnight can be purchased from the British Horse Society. Entries include:
  • Mrs Sheila Baker Well Bottom Cottage, Ashmore, Nr Shaftesbury, Dorset SP5 5AN tel: 01747 811058 email
  •  Mrs A Bay Stoke Mill Farm, Broadoak, Bridport, Dorset DT6 5NR Tel/fax: 01308 868036 website

  • Denise Marriott Blackthorn Farm, Fieldhayes, Brook Street, Shipton Gorge, Dorset DT6 4NA Tel: 01308 897039 email


Maps
Anyone riding in the area or wishing to plan a long distance or circular bridleroute may wish to use these 1:50,000 Landranger or 1:25,000 Explorer Ordnance Survey maps.