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Tarrant Rushton

25/9/2013

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25th September 2013
Tarrant Rushton
Ray
Ray, Clive, Peter, Rob.
6.7 miles
Beside the memorial - room for four or five cars if parked carefully.
Table Table Holes Bay ★★ open all day and quite good value.
Although it appears as if much of this walk is along footpaths many of them are hard surfaced tracks and it would be quite suitable for wet weather.
 A fairly flat walk with no particular difficulties.
 On the corner by Queens Coppice there is an intriguing property with trained bushes and iron work in the garden.  The man who rents this has some interesting local knowledge including the history of the Chrichel estate owned by Mary Anna Sturt (in 1940 aged 11), who married Commander Marten in 1949.  See Wikipedia Chrichel Down Affair.
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Rushmore

18/9/2013

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18th September
Rushmore
Rob
Rob, Clive, Peter, Ray.
6.1 miles
Golf club car park
At the golf club.  Excellent all day breakfasts, chilli noodles and the best gammon steak I’ve had for years ★★★.  Greatly improved since our first visit.

A pleasant, warm and sunny day with a few clouds that made the sky interesting.  From the car park we headed north along the road that leads to the two attractive houses at the entrance to the golf club.  There are some good views over the valley looking west.  We then turned west into the open countryside and then into Chase Woods where we crossed some of the paths that we had seen on Ray's walk on 28th August.  The beech avenue still looked terrific.  The area around Great Shaftesbury Coppice seemed to be an excellent pheasant breeding ground and they wandered along the path just in front of us for about 500 yards.  The route was not that well marked between Hunt Corner Farm and Withywind Cottage but that did not cause too many problems and it was nice to see more wild chicory in the fields.
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Corfe Castle

11/9/2013

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11th September 2013
Corfe
Peter
Peter, Clive, Ray.
6 miles
The National Trust car park just north east of the Castle on the A351
Lunch at The Castle Inn ★★  was pretty good.

A pleasant fairly easy walk mostly quite open with good views of Corfe Castle and the surrounding countryside.  The diagonal path across the field from the Castle towards Bucknowle House was invisiblele but there is a sign on a gate at the bottom of the slope on the other side of the field.  The next stretch along the river was pretty overgrown but quite passable.  There is a bit of a climb from the attractive Blashenwell Farm up to Kingston but the views make it worthwhile.
In 1833 John Scott the first Earl of Eldon built what is now known as the Old Church which was designed by his son-in-law, George Repton.  The walk passes this church, now a somewhat dilapidated looking private residence, and then turns east across the fields to join up with the Purbeck Way and then back into Corfe Castle.
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Owermoigne

4/9/2013

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4th September 2013
Owermoigne
Clive
Clive, Peter, Ray.
6.5 miles
Small road opposite church.  Stall selling jams and preserves nearby.

The walk along the busy A352 past the Garden Centre before turning down past Galton Farm feels a bit exposed but after this short stretch the walk is through some really good and varied countryside.  The area around Galton Heath has been developed into a rather attractive nature reserve.
Some of the fields seemed to be full of wild chicory which had been kept very short by the grazing cattle.  Talking of cattle we also spotted a very large bull who looked as if he had had a rather busy time recently.
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