There is a genuinely enduring patch of England that matches and improves on the bucolic cliches, a place where modern services collude with picturesque villages and unspoiled countryside to provide the perfect holiday destination, and where geology and history have conspired to fashion a landscape that can only properly be explored on foot. This book aims to take you into that real Dorset, a living vital place that would nonetheless be familiar to Hardy, and to ensure that, when you get there, you're not disappointed by a case of mistaken identity. All 30 walking routes and alternatives include: walking route summary, ratings for Effort Time Distance Ascents/Descents Refreshments and Vertigo risk, fully detailed walk description including frequent timings to aid navigation and check your progress, GPS waypoints at every key point on every route, full colour 1:40,000 scale Ordnance Survey licenced mapping for each route, short walk and stroll alternatives. Synopsis Including GPS Waypoint lists and a Place Name Index, this 160-page colour book contains walking routes within the county of Dorset. Wire-O spiral binding allows it to lay flat and be folded back on itself without damage.
It features: route summary of exertion rating; refreshments rating; time, distance, ascents/descents; and more.
- ISBN13 9781904946205
- Publish Date 16 January 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Discovery Walking Guides Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English