Down Down Wood Field Great Barn Close Suggested start point: Littlemoor library l Next to G o u l d ’ s Turnpike SCALE MAP 5 Distance: 9.5km / 6 miles Milden Osmington Gate Close B o t t o m North of Part of 0.25 mile We recommend this route as a bike ride taking Great Great Down BincombeFourteen Acres Bumps and Next Miller’s Barn Close Warren advantage of the traffic free cycle network Down Barn Gupton Hill Little Down Came Down alongside the Weymouth Relief Road, however it’s good as a walking route too. Huish Bottom Down Farm From Littlemoor, head in the direction of the Next Miller’s Jurassic Roundabout andMilden the new cycle path. Little Down Note the sculpture at the roundabout Down Close featuring unusual shaped stones known as Little Down ‘doggers’ found during excavations for the new Bincombe Lodge Plain road. The sides of the road are carefully Barn managed for wildflowers - in turn home to a Hill above West Field host of butterflies. Up and along the Ridgeway, Down Plantation East Hill Allotment pastFarm the site of the Viking mass grave and numerous Bronze Age round barrows. Take theEweleaze track down to Bincombe where you can access B i n c o m b e Came Wood D o w n CULLIFORD the path up to Bincombe Bumps, a substantial New Ground Lower Down group of barrows visible for miles around. R i d g e w a y TREE Bayard H i l l BARROW Facilities: Shops etc at Littlemoor, UpweyDairy and Broadwey. West Public Transport: No. 2 to Littlemoor, No.10 Down Allotment Field to Upwey, for details visitShearing travelinesw.comClose Behind Clan Chalky Road Cowleaze Cowleaze Middle Field BANK Find out more: BARROW www.southdorsetridgeway.org.uk B a y a r d H i l l West Farm New Arable Allotment WISHING WELL Elwell Field Windsbatch Bayard Snaverland & Clan West Culliver Tree LEGEND Farm Shelf Allotment Piscombe & Shitrocks Old Loynes Round Barrow Long Barrow Barn Allotment UPWEY East Culliver Tree Bank Barrow HOUSELimekiln Spring Piece l Hill Barn Batch Spring Quarry Woodland Down and Great Cowleaze or Coppice or Pit T h e K n o l l B i n c o m b e Bottom Hurdle East Cowleaze Eight Mead H i l l Parish boundary Middle Acres Farm Ryelands Allotments Allotment WestbrookPublic footpath or bridleway Foss Hill Farm BINCOMBE Cothays West Down Bathays Walk route (off road) Greater Mead West Mead Bathays Mead of Cowleaze W e s t H i l l Traffic free cycle / walk route UPWEY C o o m b e B o t t o m Great Coombe Linch Horse Farm East Eleven Acres Quiet road cycle / walk route Farm Greenhill Bazell Close Barton TheRough colours Grounds on this map approximately indicate the type and age of the rock below ground - look out for features G r e e n New Stottingway Street Hilly or changes in the landscape Slip H i l l Old Cowleaze Coppice Furzeland Allotments Stone GRAVEL UPWEY Great Cowleaze MANOR Butts Mead Barn KeeveDeposited Mead approximately 42 million years ago Farm CHALK Home Holy Formed approximately 90 - 100 million years ago Cowleaze Lawns

Brazil Four Eweleaze Keeve UPPER GREENSAND Acres Formed approximatelyPeters’ Mead 100 - 113 million years ago Mead North Cowleaze Middle Broad Mead Chall Ardens GAULT CLAY Manor Shortlands Cowleaze Brow Formed approximately 113 million years ago Farm C o o m b e Mead Ten Acres

Patched Watery Lane North Sixteen AcresWEALDON GROUP Icen Lane South Field Allotments Va l l e y Under Formed approximately 126 - 145 million years ago Dorchester Road A354 Weyside Verless Mead Chalk Chapples’s PURBECK LIMESTONE Farm Clapcotts Brow Quarry Close Formed approximately 140 - 145 million years ago South CHALBURY HILLFORT Lodden PORTLAND LIMESTONE Poxy Mead Close Formed approximately 145 - 148 million years ago Jurassic KIMMERIDGE CLAY Roundabout South Close Rimbrow Formed approximately 148 - 157 million years ago Snooks Hill Coppice CORALLIAN GROUPWinshardincludes layers of clay and mud Formed approximately 157 - 163 million years ago Littlemoor Road Fibb’s Two Bincombe South Closes Cockleton OXFORD CLAY FORMATION The Common Marsh Great Lodden Formed approximately 157 - 163 million years ago Dairy Two South Pulpit KELLAWAYS FORMATION Mud and Sandstone Closes BOILING A353 ROCK Formed approximately 164 - 166 million years agoManor l Coombe Valley Road CORNBRASH South Farm BROADWEY A354 Ë Three South Formed approximately 164 - 168Meadow million years ago Closes Wad Brow South A353 Twelve Acres Field names Sixteen Bronze Age Round Barrow Types: There were once thousands of barrows across the Ridgeway - only a few hundredFour are still visible but traces of many others remain. The field names onAcres this map are taken from Tithe Their designs feature various combinations of mound, ditch and bank. The Marsh Smith maps and manuscripts that were produced Closes Marley Walls following the 1836 Tithe Commutation Act. These Tout recorded the names of all owners and occupiers of land in the parish that were liable to tithes - a tax Clay Lawns of one tenth of everything they produced. Bowl Ditched Bowl LITTLEMOORBell Disc HigherPond Clay Lands PRESTON Litton Cheney Winterbourne Abbas A35 A35 DORCHESTER l l This map is one in a series of six l showing suggested walking routes Long Bredy exploring the remarkable Winterbourne l A35 landscape of the South Dorset Steepleton Ridgeway. These maps and accompanying Field Guide aim to Littlebredy help you better understand this l Martinstown fascinating ancient landscape. l Winterbourne For further wayfaring information l Puncknowle Monkton please refer to OS map OL15 and MAP l www.southdorsetridgeway.org.uk 3 MAIDEN CASTLE MAPS IN THE SERIES HILLFORT MAP 1: Abbotsbury Castle Hillfort BLACK DOWN MAP 2: Hell Stone + Rocket Quarry MAP 3: Valley of Stones A354 MAP 4: Black Down + Bronkham Hill ABBOTSBURY CASTLE HILLFORT MAP 5: Bincombe Bumps l MAP 6: White Horse Hill West Bexington MAP MAP 4 MAP 2 l Portesham 1 Abbotsbury l Upwey l l Bincombe Rodden MAP l 5 MAP Broadwey l CHALBURY HILLFORT 6 l Sutton Poyntz Nottington Preston l Osmington l l A353 MAP 1: Abbotsbury Castle Hillfort Features on this walk include: Iron Age hillfort, Bronze Age barrows, holloway, Upper Greensand

and Abbotsbury Ironstone exposures and Chesil B3155 Beach. Start: Abbotsbury village B3157 MAP 2: Hell Stone + Rocket Quarry Features on this walk include: Rocket Quarry, remains of Hell Stone long barrow, Hampton stone circle, Upper Greensand and Abbotsbury Ironstone exposures, holloway. WEYMOUTH Start: Portesham village Chickerell MAP 3: Valley of Stones l Features on this walk include: Grey Mare and her MAP 5 Colts long barrow, Kingston stone circle, Bride valley, bluebells and butterflies, Celtic field systems and sarsen boulder train. Start: Littlebredy Artwork by Amanda Wallwork Bincombe MAP 4: Black Down + Bronkham Hill © Amanda Wallwork and Dorset AONB Features on this walk include: Hardy Monument - This map and accompanying guide have been the highest point of the Ridgeway with produced by Dorset based artist Amanda Wallwork. Bumps spectacular view, heathland, gravel pit, bluebells Amanda was commissioned to undertake this work by and bilberries, Bronze Age barrow cemetery, the South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership sinkholes, skylarks, ancient stone slab walling, dry Scheme. This Scheme is led by the Dorset Area of valley. Start: Black Down car park Outstanding Natural Beauty (Dorset AONB) and is B3156 South Dorset Ridgeway supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Arts Council MAP 5: Bincombe Bumps England has supported the engagement of artists in circular walk route Features on this walk include: Bronze Age round this project. barrows, strip lynchets and butterflies. Much of The Dorset AONB is one of a family of protected this route is along a traffic free cycle path. Start: landscapes in the UK, working to conserve and Littlemoor library enhance the natural beauty of these special MAP 6: White Horse Hill landscapes. Features on this walk include: Osmington White Mapping Data: Horse, barrows, butterflies, strip lynchets, drove Ordnance Survey road and historic villages. © Crown copyright and database rights 2015 Wyke Regis Start: Either Sutton Poyntz or Osmington Ordnance Survey 100019790. l British Geological Survey Further information: Derived from 1:50,000 scale BGS Digital Data under www.southdorsetridgeway.org.uk licence 2003/102, British Geological Survey © NERC