CULLIFORD TREE Twenty Four BARROW Acres Great Field

SCALE MAPDown 6 Farm Half 0.25 mile BANK Moon White Horse Hill BARROW Holcombe Bottom Coppice Down Middle Field

Yonder Down Down Ground Old Loynes Ground East Culliver Tree Lower Higher Thornhills Spring Northdown Thornhills Barn Poxwell Grove West CulliverTree Down and Sand Pit Field Waryhall Hill Wood Bottom Seven Acres East Furze Ground Close New Ground West Field

Hewsh Ten Acres Poxwell Drove Middle Field West Down Waryhall Bottom L Hewsh Spring Down W e s t H i l l Close Higher Down New Mead W h i t e H o r s e H i l l Barn North Spring Bottom E a s t H i l l Twenty Four Barn Great Field Hither Piece Acres Piece WHITE Upper Barn HORSE Piece Old Down Manor Farm Eleven Acres North Down Down Barn POXWELL South Down Stoney Field Great Piece Hill Piece Old Cowleaze Cuckoo Eweleaze Veterans Wood Park Upper Field The Down Moor Plaisters Lane Court Close

Close PUMPING East Long Lay POXWELL STATION Higher Corner MANOR Verless Mead West Long Ley Chapples’s Knappy C o o m b e B o t t o m NorthMead Pixon Barn Close l Ground Dedwell Peakston Barn Down Great Piece Great Combe Yew Cowleaze Nether Down Mead Leaze SUTTON POYNTZ Close Large Meadow Longford Voscombe Mead Lawn

Lower Corner Suggested start point: Either Sutton Poyntz or Osmington l Little Meadow North Mead Walk Distance: Walls

Mead Hall’s Farm Broad Long circular: Approx. 8km / 5 miles Poxton Cowleaze West Crooked StraightsBrier’s Sutton Poyntz loop: Approx. 4km / 2.5 Close Crooked Walls

Mead Home Close Mastimas miles Weymouth Swaffields Mead Lower Hill Cowleaze Under Ridlinch Osmington loop:West Approx. Quar 5km / 3 miles Wad Brow Reek Ridlinch Verlings Oxleaze Withey Grove Options of a longer walk or two shorter circular Mead Berry walks, starting and finishing at each village.

Long Kitchen Exploring the eastern end of the Ridgeway these Church Lane Upper Ridlinch East Cowleaze White walks involve a steep climb but the views over The colours on this map approximately indicate the type Horse Fore Hills the Jurassic CoastWest are Cowleaze worth it and the chalk and age of the rock below ground - Winsloadlook out for features Farm Fose Hill Roman Road grassland provides good wildflower and butterfly or changes in the landscape A353 habitats. Great Meadow Under Ground LEGEND CHALK From Sutton Poyntz up past the chalk cut Formed approximately 90 - 100 million years ago Rowlands PRESTON Bramble Furlong figure of George III and Horse and west along Upton Round Barrow Long Barrow UPPER GREENSAND Furlong Farm Manor Farm Newman Thorn the Ridgeway past numerous Bronze Age Formed approximately 100 - 113 million years ago Eweleaze l East Oat Hill Preston Road Bottom barrows and back down past the spring that Bank Barrow Limekiln GAULT CLAY supplies water to Weymouth, then Veterans Formed approximately 113 million years ago Wood (an SSSI) and the pumping station.UPTON WEALDON GROUP Plough Field Quarry Woodland Rowdens OSMINGTON Common From Osmington the route initially follows the Formed approximately 126 - 145 million years ago West Oat Hill A353or Pit or Coppice Banky Wildtrack Meadow that was once the main road to TenPoxwell, PURBECK LIMESTONE Acres Formed approximately 140 - 145 million years ago Twenty Mead and then along the Ridgeway past Poxwell Drove Acres Parish boundary PORTLAND LIMESTONE Hitts and back down to the village. Or continue west Cowleaze Formed approximately 145 - 148 million years ago Eighteen North Farm Second Common along the Ridgeway above the White Horse and KIMMERIDGEWinlakes CLAY O s m i n g t o n H i l l Acres Hill past numerous barrows, views to the Iron Age Public footpath ROMANor bridleway Formed approximately 148 - 157 million years ago Cowleaze Limekiln Field NORTH SOUTH Cross section from East Hill towards hillfort of Chalbury and across to the Isle of VILLA CORALLIAN GROUP includes layers of clay and mud EAST HILL East Farm Portland. Cowleaze Sandy Nap Walk route Formed approximately 157 - 163 million years ago Sutton Poyntz, showing how earth Dairy Sixteen Acres FAULT Facilities: Pubs in Sutton Poyntz and Preston Hams OXFORD CLAY FORMATION LINE ––––– PURBECK LIMESTONE movementsSANDY have BARROW altered the Ten North Yew Field names HolesFormed approximately 157 - 163 million years ago ––––– PORTLAND LIMESTONE sequence of rock layers. This is a Mills RoadCowleaze Public Transport: X54, X55 stop on theLeaze A353 The field names on this map are taken from Tithe KELLAWAYS FORMATION Mud and Sandstone CHALK highly complex area geologically due at Preston and Osmington. Also no. 4 to Preston maps and manuscripts that were produced KIMMERIDGE CLAY Preston Formed approximately 164 - 166 million years ago to a seriesHigher of Byfaults that slice and and 4A to Sutton Poyntz. Limited service on all. Park following the 1836 Tithe Commutation Act. These Higher Eweleaze Common CORNBRASH Quar Gates Mead Visit travelinesw.com for timetables Fore Hill OXFORD CLAY Limekiln dice strata against each other. recorded the names of all owners and occupiers of Mead Formed approximately 164 - 168 million years ago South Hill CORALLIAN land in the parish that were liable to tithes - a tax FOREST MARBLE UPPER GREENSAND + GAULT CLAY Ground MearsReference for diagram: John Cope and Long Close Find out more: Wire Piece FOREST MARBLE Formed approximately 165 million years ago CORNBRASH + FROME CLAY OXFORD CLAY MeadGeologists Association Two www.southdorsetridgeway.org.uk of one tenth of everything they produced. Cowleaze Large Crosses East Becken West Bullens Bullens 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 6 Colts long barrow, Kingston stone circle, Bride valley, bluebells and butterflies, Celtic field systems and sarsen boulder train. White Start: Littlebredy Artwork by Amanda Wallwork MAP 4: Black Down + Bronkham Hill © Amanda Wallwork and Dorset AONB Horse 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. spectacular view, heathland, gravel pit, bluebells Amanda was commissioned to undertake this work by Hill 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