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Photo of The Brace of Pheasants, a pub near Plush, Dorset, south west England.

© Derek Harper / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

The Brace of Pheasants

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The Brace of Pheasants stands deep in the Plush valley, a 16th-century thatched inn well off the main roads north of Dorchester. It has open fires, a garden, rooms if you’re staying, and a kitchen that leans on Dorset produce. Good walking country all around. Maiden Newton station is the nearest railhead, roughly 12km west, so most people arrive by car.

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Photo of the Dorset National Landscape, a National Landscape in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Dorset National Landscape

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Dorchester

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

Photo along the Wessex Ridgeway, a 136-mile long-distance path running from Marlborough to Lyme Regis, south west England.

Wessex Ridgeway

Long-distance path

The prehistoric chalk line continued — from Marlborough across Salisbury Plain and Cranborne Chase to the sea at Lyme Regis.

1.4 km N · Wiltshire, Dorset & Devon

Photo of Cerne Abbas Giant, a hill figure in Dorset, south west England.Iconic

Cerne Abbas Giant

Hill figure near Cerne Abbas

Britain's largest chalk giant — a 55-metre club-wielding figure on the hill above Cerne Abbas, of much-argued age.

4.8 km W

Photo of Cerne Abbas, a village in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Cerne Abbas

Village

A handsome village of timbered and thatched houses by the River Cerne, abbey remains and a chalk hill giant looming above.

4.8 km W · Dorset

Photo along the Hardy Way, a 217-mile long-distance path running from Higher Bockhampton to Stinsford, south west England.Highlight

Hardy Way

Long-distance path

Around Thomas Hardy's Wessex from his birthplace cottage to the churchyard at Stinsford, via Corfe Castle and Lulworth Cove.

7.3 km S · Dorset & Wiltshire

Photo of Milton Abbas, a village in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Milton Abbas

Village

An 18th-century model village of near-identical white thatched cottages set in pairs up a single curving street below the wooded downs.

9.5 km E · Dorset