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PLEASE NOTE: the Poole Harbour Trail is not currently a cycle trail. Cyclists should only use rights of way specified for their use such as bridleways.
You can walk all the way round Poole Harbour on existing paths, as shown here using our descriptions. Download the 6 descriptions using the buttons below. Choose the illustrated leaflets fully updated in 2017, bursting with interesting information about the walks, or the Word versions for recently updated, shorter documents that you can annotate yourself.
There are waymarks, in the form of small, green roundels, in place for the more important junctions of the linear walks that make up the Poole Harbour Trail but not for our circular walks.
We dislike clutter in the countryside so have not added posts where there are none leaving some gaps in the waymarking.
| WALK 1 | WALK 2 | WALK 3 |
| WALK 4 | WALK 5b | WALK 6 |
| WALK 1 | WALK 2 | WALK 3 |
| WALK 4 | WALK 5b | WALK 6 |
For your own choice of walk, use the recently updated Ordnance Survey maps, which show the whole trail. For those unfamiliar with map reading there is some useful information given by Ordnance Survey here
The start and finish points 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 are the web sites of More Bus from Wilts and Dorset and Yellow buses.
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.
Walk the whole trail and get yourself a place on our walks ladder!
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 have any comments to make on these walks or questions about them please email us.
See also our preferred WALK 5.
See also our circular walks.
If you have a GPS and tracklogs software, you can download the 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 1 as gpx | WALK 2 as gpx | WALK 3 as gpx |
| WALK 4 as gpx | WALK 5b as gpx | WALK 6 as gpx |
| Whole trail as gpx |
Or please ask us for the tracklogs in your favourite format.
This page updated 23rd May 2022.
