Bowleaze Cove

630 miles around England's toe — the longest and most demanding of the National Trails.

here · spans 4 counties

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

here · spans 24 counties

Square stone footings of a Romano-Celtic temple from the 300s AD, on a grassy rise above Bowleaze Cove and Weymouth Bay.

0.4 km W

Dorset's "Isle" of Purbeck, a peninsula of chalk and limestone on the Jurassic Coast, with sea stacks, quarried stone and a ruined castle

0.9 km E

Chalk ridges, quiet combes and one of the finest coastlines in England, from Lyme Bay to Purbeck

0.9 km E

The only English hill figure carrying a rider — King George III on horseback — cut above Weymouth in 1808.

2.7 km NE