5. When you reach a 1/ 1/ Download the FREE Sports Tracker app, to keep a log of your activities 2 2 miles : 1 2 hours : HARD large, stone, lookout post, Church 'Ope Cove Notes: Steep & technical paths, sturdy footwear recommended! turn left, away from the cliff & head up the hill. I This route starts from Weston Street at Easton. Parking is on the roadside. There are made a detour left, to visit no facilities on this walk. Note: There are steep steps & loose surfaces throughout. a 2nd lookout post. At the top, join the disused 1. Parking in front of the new houses, head East, towards Southwell Street & at the railway line & turn left. junction, turn left. Shortly after, cross the road to & again bear left. 5 At the corner of the castle wall, turn right on to a footpath down into the woods, signed Lookout Posts 6. Follow the railway line 6 Trail. West, through a deep, 5 chalky cutting. Keep left 2. Head down to the ruins of St. 7 at the fork. There are 9 Andrew’s Church & the Pirate’s often climbers here. 8 Graveyard. GREAT view point. 4 7. Continue along the 2 In the far right corner of the ruins, railway to a junction. 3 1 head down some steep stone steps. Keep left, over a small CAUTION, slippery when wet! rise & keep left again. At a junction with a single 3. Joining the paved path, turn left & bush, keep left again. head up the larger steps. About There is a slightly hidden halfway up, take the little trail right, milestone 'coastpath' through the bushes & head out onto Fold One pointing left. the cliffs. page 1 page 3 Fold Two Fold Two page 2 page 4 8. Head down the slope & steps to the 9. At the road, bear left to re-pass 4. At the top, bear slight right & follow the path roughly lookout point under the shadow of the front of Pennsylvania Castle. Cross the straight down the hill. Towards the bottom, turn left. . GREAT viewing point! road & then soon after, turn right, back into Weston Street & the car. Option 1: the thick red line. I followed the very small trail, Bear slight right & head up the slope right out along the cliff edge! This means winding back & under the huge stone arch. If the museum hasn't started doing coffees forth from the cliff, as some parts have fallen. yet, there's always The Lobster Pot, by the CAUTION: unprotected edges! At the top is Portland Museum. Worth lighthouse, at . It's just a couple a look if you have the time to spare. I of miles away & well worth the little drive. Option 2: the thin dotted line. If you understand, that they'reN thinking of prefer, stay on the safer, slightly doing coffees, which would be a great more accessible path, 20m or so addition this little walk. back from the cliff edge. The two Copyright The Explorer. come together several times further Print for personal use only. E Not to be reproduced along anyway. without permission. the

The disused railway cutting 6 As you continue heading East along the coast line, lookout for the many W DORSET species of butterfly, including explorer Common Blue, Chalky Blue, Peacock, Gatekeeper & Red For more information about The Lobster Pot Dorset, it’s towns & countryside, Admiral. visit www.explorer.geowessex.com, at Portland Bill 8 Rufus Castle which is independent from this publication.

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