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02Dorset Hambledon & Hod Hills CORNWALL DORSET 01 ROCHE ROCK 02 HAMBLEDON & HOD HILLS SOUTH WEST uDistance: 2½ miles/4km uTime: 1½ hours uGrade: Easy SOUTH WEST uDistance: 6 miles/9.6km uTime: 3 hours uGrade: Moderate Views across to PLA N YOUR WALK Hambledon Hill basks PLA N YOUR WALK SEE URE rugged Roche Rock. in winter sunlight. EATAGE 36 F ON P PHOTO: PHOTO: ROBERT HESKETH ROBERT ROUTE BAILEY TOM ROUTE S tart/parking Parking S tart/parking Small bay in front Roche parish National Trust car park church, PL26 8HB, (free), 5 minutes’ drive grid ref SW988598 from Child Okeford or Is it for me? Footpaths, A350, grid ref ST853112, CHOSEN BY… granite blocks was a pavements and lanes. CHOSEN BY… neither crown or parliament) nearby postcode DT11 8PS ROBERT HESKETH remarkable feat of medieval Mainly level. Ladders to PHILIP THOMAS took up improvised arms to Is it for me? Mostly follows Roche Rock is a engineering. It has been a ruin summit Roche Rock 6000 years of human defend their land from looting muddy bridle tracks and dramatic outcrop of for at least 250 years, but Stiles 2 history were played troops. Cromwell’s New Model grassy footpaths, with quartz shorl (tourmalinised the reason why it was built out on two hills in Dorset at Army swiftly sent them two gentle climbs to PLANNING open access hilltops granite) standing 20m (66ft) remains a mystery. It may the southwestern edge of packing. Retreating from Stiles 2 (same stile twice) above the Mid-Cornish have been in imitation of Nearest Town St Austell Cranborne Chase. This walk Hambledon Hill, we dip into Refreshments plateau. Climb to the summit St Michael’s Mount opposite Rock Inn at start weaves between epochs as it the curiously twice-named PLANNING for panoramic views to Bodmin Marazion, or a waymark and Public toilets At start climbs through a Neolithic village of Shroton (or Iwerne Nearest town Moor and over Cornwall’s station for pilgrims on their Public transport. camp and between the Courtney, as it’s also known), Blandford Forum deeply scarred clay country. way west to the Mount. One First Kernow 27, Truro/ imposing Iron Age ramparts before scaling the flanks of Refreshments The Cricketers pub in Shroton/ Many of the white china clay unsubstantiated tradition Bodmin route, daily. of Hambledon Hill. This chalk Hod Hill, where the Celtic 0871 200 2233, Iwerne Courtney (01258 spoil heaps are now grassed is that a hermit lived here, outcrop grants commanding Durotriges tribe were ousted travelinesw.com 860421) or The Baker over, but the surrounding attended by his daughter. Maps OS Explorer 106; views over the fertile expanse by Roman invaders. Today, Arms in Child Okeford landscape is dotted with large Possibly, the hermit was Landranger 200 of Blackmore Vale, but for only sheep occupy the high (01258 860260) basins, chimneys and industrial an outcast, perhaps a leper. More Walks Really short reasons unknown, it was ground of Hambledon and Public toilets None buildings. Perched on top and Roche Rock also has a part Walks St Ives to Padstow, abandoned by its prehistoric Hod Hills, shaping the Public transport X3 bus from Shaftesbury/ built into the face of Roche in the Tristan and Iseult tale. Robert Hesketh, Bossiney inhabitants in favour of nearby flower-rich grasslands that Books, 2018 Blandford stops in Rock is the ruined chapel of St This classic story of adulterous Hod Hill. It was later briefly attract 28 species of butterfly, Shroton, Point 3, Michael. Dedicated in 1409, it love between a Cornish knight reoccupied during the English including chalk-hill blue and southwestcoaches.co.uk has two stories: a lower room and an Irish princess has been and Guinevere story. Legend Civil War, when a several dark green fritillary, earning Maps OS Explorer 118, for a chaplain or hermit, with retold many times, most has it the Rock is the refuge thousand ‘Clubmen’ Hambledon Hill its status as Landranger 194 the chapel above. Raising the notably through the Lancelot after death of wicked Jan ➥ (disgruntled farmers, loyal to a National Nature Reserve. ➥ GRADIENT PROFILE GRADIENT PROFILE 600 600 400 400 200 200 metres metres 0 0 km 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 km 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 ✁ SOUTH WEST SOUTH WEST DORSET NOVEMBER 2019 CORNWALL NOVEMBER 2019 02 HAMBLEDON & HOD HILLS 01 ROCHE ROCK uOS Explorer map 118 uBuy maps at: ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop uOS Explorer map 106 uBuy maps at: ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop Start From car park, head R/ 1 4 east up road and turn L up bridleway after ‘Keeper’s Lodge’, waymarked ‘Stour E SURVEY. MEDIA 001/19 E SURVEY. E SURVEY. MEDIA 001/19 E SURVEY. C Valley Way’ (SVW). Go L C 3 around barn at top of field, RDNAN RDNAN and follow track along R O O edge of fields. At wyvern’s tail 19 19 fingerpost, continue through 2 DATE WALKE DATE DATE WALKE DATE gate and follow muddy track to YRIGHT 20 YRIGHT 20 P P O O C trig point on Hambledon Hill. C 1 mile/1.6km 2Go straight on at junction ©CROWN ©CROWN D to gate and into National Trust D open access land. Take an 1 anti-clockwise loop around the hillfort earthworks (or just StART 1 T explore at your leisure, but 4 AR St TIME T keep dogs on lead). Return TIME T 2 3 to gate you entered hillfort by and retrace steps to trig AKEN point/junction, turning L down AKEN bridleway waymarked ‘Wessex Ridgeway’. After gate, turn L down track at signpost for ‘Iwerne Courtney’ (a village also known as Shroton). Cross Tregeagle. A 17th century Start 1 mile/1.7km stile R of cricket pavilion to magistrate and Duchy of 1Take the pavement beside 3Turn L onto lane. lane, turn L, then shortly R middle of three tracks forking earthworks anti-clockwise Cornwall steward, Tregeagle the Bugle road. Turn R 300m on signed footpath between L (signed bridleway). Follow (or again, roam at will) to gate was known and feared for ahead over stile. Follow path 2 miles/3.1km YO YO houses to pub and bus stop. track to gate and L edge of in far corner of Roman fort. his harsh judgements and to Roche Rock. Use fixed Reaching the junction, U U 4 R RATING next field to road by house. Turn R, following bridleway R RATING treatment of tenants. After ladders to summit. turn L. Keep L at fork ahead. 3½ miles 5.6km steeply downhill, keeping L his death, a guilty defendant Turn L at main road. Follow 3Turn R down street and 4½ miles/7.2km into trees to car park. called upon Tregeagle’s spirit ¼ mile/0.5km pavement back to start. before church, turn R along 4Cross road to gate to witness for him. Tregeagle 2Follow rough path Fairfield Road (signposted opposite house and follow materialised to witness… for south-east for to path junction. © Country © Country © Country © Country V IEW THE WALK ON Turn L. Follow rough path east V IEW THE WALK ON ‘Child Okef’d’) around to stile signed bridleway around L OS MAPS ONLINE: the prosecution. Justice was OS MAPS ONLINE: by cricket pavilion. Turn L over edge of field to gate. Pick up done, but the court sentenced to metal gate and stone stile. lfto.com/cwroutes W lfto.com/cwroutes W stile and retrace earlier steps a track ahead, which curves alking Tregeagle to the impossible Cross and continue through alking IN ASSOCIATION WITH IN ASSOCIATION WITH N back up to signpost. Stay away from road, climbing east N task of emptying Dozmary two fields with hedge on your ovember 2019 ovember ovember 2019 ovember ahead this time (signposted flank of Hod Hill. At first gate/ Pool with a limpet shell. R. Turn L onto public footpath for ‘Steepleton’), following worn SVW waymark, turn R He fled to Roche Rock and at kissing gate. Follow track to bridleway to junction. Take up into hillfort. Follow haunts it to this day. Bugle road. Turn R for 250m. ✁.
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