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Circular Walks

You can walk all the way round Poole Harbour on six linear walks making up the Poole Harbour Trail. Here, ready for printing, are some circular walks varying from 1.5 to 7.5 miles in length that take you to a view point or some other point of interest. Walk 1a is from the Walks 4 Softies website but the others have been developed by the Poole Harbour Trails Community Group. The numbers on the plan below show the approximate starting point of each.

Please be aware that we have now waymarked the linear Poole Harbour Trails walks with small, green roundels but these do not necessarily give the correct directions for the circular walks.

The start points of most of the circular walks given here are nostly at bus stops. Please check the bus timetables as times of buses and even their routes change from time to time. Here is the web site of More Bus from Wilts and Dorset.

Walk 1a 4 mls Poole Park & Poole Quay	Walk 1b 5½ mls Holes Bay, Upton Country Park	Walk 1c 2½ mls Liliput & Salterns
Walk 2a 4½ mls Greenlands Farm & Agglestone	Walk 2b 6 mls Studland Heath, Shell Bay	Walk 3a 4½ mls Middlebere Wytch Farm Sherford
Walk 3b 2½ mls Middlebere & Sherford Bridge	Walk 3c 6 mls Hartland Moor, Scotland, Sherford	Walk 4a 4½ mls Wareham Forest and West Mills
Walk 4b 4 mls Sika Trail	Walk 4c 4½ mls Best Walls, Wareham	Walk 4d 1½ mls Wareham Quay & Walls
Walk 5a 5 mls Sandford & Organford	Walk 6a 5 mls Upton Country Park, Roman Road, Upton Heath	Walk 6b 7 mls Upton Country Park, Ham Common, Holes Bay
Walk 6c 7 mls Upton, Turlin Moor & Lytchett Bay	Walk 6d 3½ mls Upton, Turlin Moor

Numbering of the walks is based on the number of the nearest linear Poole Harbour Trails walk. Each walk is illustrated by a map of the area. While this is sufficient to give you an idea of distance and direction of walking, you would find it easier if you carried an Ordnance Survey map of the area with you, Explorer Map OL15 is ideal. For those unfamiliar with map reading there is some useful information given by Ordnance Survey here.

Transport

The start and finish points of most of the described walks are at bus stops. Please check the bus timetables because times of buses and even their routes change from time to time. Here is the web site of More Bus from Wilts and Dorset.

Several parts of the trail can be reached from train stations, Poole, Wareham, Hamworthy and Holton Heath, but be careful, some of the ticket machines take only cards.

Use the Swanage Railway

Watch the progress of the Swanage to Wareham extension of the Swanage Railway, hoped to start for 90 days in summer 2023

Wherever you walk, always follow the Countryside Code as updated on 1st April 2021. If you are taking a dog with you, you will find a lot of useful information on the Dorset Dogs website.

Further information

If you have a GPS, you can download the circular walks here as gpx files. Right click button below and use Save Link As or Save target as. With some operating systems you may need to change the file extension back to .gpx after saving.

Or please ask us for the tracklogs in your favourite format.

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Page updated 20th September 2023.