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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 at bus stops. Please check the bus timetables as times of buses and even their routes change from time to time. Here are the web sites of More Bus from Wilts and Dorset and Yellow buses.
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.
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.
If you wish to ask anything about the walks, please feel free to contact us.
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.
WALK 1a | WALK 1b | WALK 1c | WALK 2a |
WALK 2b | WALK 3a | WALK 3b | WALK 3c |
WALK 4a | WALK 4b | WALK 4c | WALK 4d |
WALK 5a | WALK 6a | WALK 6b |
Or please ask us for the tracklogs in your favourite format.
Back to linear walks.
Page updated 7th May 2022.