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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 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 the Yellow buses.

WALK 1a 4 mls	WALK 1b 5½ mls	WALK 1c 2 or 2½ mls	WALK 2a 4½ mls
WALK 2b 6 mls	WALK 3a 4½ mls	WALK 3b 2½ mls	WALK 3c 6 mls
WALK 4a 4½ mls	WALK 4b 4 mls	WALK 4c 4½ mls	WALK 4d 1½ mls
WALK 5a 5 mls	WALK 6a 5 mls	WALK 6b 7 mls

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.

If you wish to ask anything about the walks, please feel free to contact us.

Wherever you walk, always follow the Countryside Code. 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.

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.

The maps on this website are downloaded from Open Street Map unless otherwise stated.

Page updated 10th July 2020.